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From: twmanino@taco.cc (TONY W MANINO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Anyone out there with a PORFOLIO?
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.133056.7176@ncsu.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 13:30:56 GMT
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>BTW: on the off chance that my interface is dead, and I'm just doing
>something wrong, here's what's happening:  I've been using a 9-to-25
>AT cable to connect the PF to both a Sun SPARC and a PC (AT, I
>assume.. it's not mine).  When I say COPY AUX CON on the PF I simply
>get a "Not Ready Error".  Any help would be much appreciated...

>-Dan Mosedale

I have had a similar problem.  My interface is fine, but I'm having file
transfer woes.  I do not yet have xterm on the Portfolio, but am feverishly
trying.  (I am the only local person with a Portfolio.)  I wrote a short
program on my Atari ST to transfer the file to the Portfolio, then did a
"copy com1 xterm.com" on the portfolio.  The problem comes in when the 
Portfolio reaches an ASCII 26 in the file (a CTRL-Z), indicating end of 
file.  Of course, I don't get the whole file.

I see 2 solutions:
 
  1) Append an ASCII 26 to the end of the first part, then get the second
     part of xterm and append it, etc.  (I have managed to produce a file
     containing an ASCII 26 only, but am unable to append it to the other.
     Any suggestions?)

  2) Somehow transfer the whole file at once.


The parallel interface does not work with my ST, therefore I didn't purchase
one.

On the append subject, I have tried "copy part1+part2 xterm.com" but the
Portfolio doesn't support this option of the "copy" command.


Ideas?

Tony Manino
twmanino@eos.ncsu.edu