Re: IIgs files -> serial port

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

pinder2@newton.emba.uvm.edu.uvm.edu (Justin Pinder) writes:

>Can anyone tell me how to send a file to the Apple serial port in "raw"
>format? (Using ProDOS or system utilities)..? Is there any way to 
>transmit files through the serial port at all?

That sounds very do-able. All you would have to do is list the file with
output redirected to the port. Under GNO/ME:

cat file >.ttyx

Under ORCA:

type file >.devx             (Use "devices" to find the .dev number for the)
                             (port)

If you don't use a shell, I think you're out of luck. It's just one of those things that;s really easy from a shell that's not without one...

I suppose you could always try something along the lines of...

10 print chr$(4);"open file"
20 print chr$(4);"read file"
30 get a$
40 print chr$(4);"pr#x"
50 print a$;
60 goto 20

Add an ONERR for the end of file (15 onerr goto 70 // 70 print chr$(4);"close")
and it works (but very, very slowly)
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