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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Re: Tandy 100 to Mac.
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Date: 19 Nov 88 03:48:39 GMT
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I've written a couple of programs to aid this so I am qualified to talk
about m100 Mac intercommunication. The M100, or the 102 use a text file
format with no line separators and a single <return> character at the end
of a paragraph. This is exactly the format used by Mac text files. Both
machines have character sets that include common accented letters, but
they are in different places in the font. My software handles the
inter-conversion, but you can get by with out it.

1.) Physical connect: A MODEM CABLE WON'T WORK! Get an ImagewWriter I
cable. (Or, you can stick a conversion box on the end of your modem
cable.) In more techincal terms, the modem cable is expecting to talk to
an RS232 DCE device, and the model 100/102 is a DTE device. This means
that pins 2 and 3 are swapped from what they should be.

2.) Set your mac modem program to 8-data bits, no parity one stop bit,
text record, XON/XOFF (^S/^Q) control flow, 9600 baud.

3.) from the M100 text editor, say <F3>COM1:n18e (as I remember, my
software reminds me as I use it, but I don't have it with me at the
moment.)  This sends an exact image of the file, with no extraneous
carriage returns out the M100 serial port.

My software, soon to be available, show you a Mac finder desktop with
the bitmap of the M100 screen floating on it.

To download a file, you just pick it with the mouse and drag it onto
the mac's desktop.

uploading: pick and drag an icon and throw it at the m100.

Renaming a M100 file: just click and type.

Deleting: a m100 file: just drag it to the mac's trashcan.  

double click on an m100 file and it opens on the Mac in a text editor
window.  (You can change the font from the m100 font, but it is
available if you want it. (and a high resolution mode, for printing m100
graphics without jaggies on a Mac printer!))

double click on the time, (remember you are seeing an accurate copy of the
m100 screen on your mac's desktop, so there is a working clock.) and you
get a dialog asking you if you want to update the time or the date from
the Mac to the model 100 or vice versa.

I am currebtly updating it to handle the m100 floppy drive.

--- David Phillip Oster            --When you asked me to live in sin with you
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --I didn't know you meant sloth.
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