Re: Med Fly Serial Transfers

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

(Med Fly seems to have standard DB-25 serial port, acts a bit like an
Apple ][, and has a boot disk and word processor)

Hmmm...Can you tell the word processor that there is a printer connected
to the serial port...say, tell it the printer is in Slot #2, or something
like that (don't know how the beast is configured)

If you could get the program to print to the serial port, then all you
would need is a data cable.  Try a modem cable with an external
null-modem...that way, you can insert or remove the null-modem as needed
to get the ports talking to each other.  Load up your terminal program on
the receiving computer, and tell the Fly to print.  If you are lucky, you
ought to be able to get the printer data to dribble out the serial port
and show up on your other screen.  If that works, then you can use an
ASCII capture to catch the data, and *BINGO!* your files are transferred.

If you want to be really suave about it, you could do a global find and
replace to change all the CR's in the file to something oddball like "~~CR"
or something like that.  Then once the data is transferred, you can use a
global search and replace to...
a.  Strip out all the CR's (or CRLF's, either one)
b.  Replace all the ~~'s with CR's 
to restore the original file.

Hey, it makes sense to me... 
Let us know if you meet with some success!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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