Re: Apple II+ basic and pascal text files - transfer to UNIX

[Paul Schlyter <pausch.DO.NOT.SPAM.ME@stockholm.bostream.se>]

Rob wrote:
> 
> Would anyone here have any suggestions for how to efficiently and effectively
> transfer applesoft basic programs and pascal text files to a UNIX computer?
> 
> Among my apple collection are working machines with super serial cards and
> some not quite ever made to work scsi controllers; and plus, e, gs, and even a
> c model.
> 
> I have some useful software in both applesoft and pascal format that I've never
> managed to properly upload to a server back when I still remembered how to run
> file transfer software.  I seem to remember that one file transfer system knew
> how to read dos, pascal, and prodost formatted filesystems.
> 
> Some of the applesoft programs have very long lines which have been a problem in
> prior software upload attempts, or perhaps it was in my attempts to "list" out
> the files to a text file on the apple.  For example I recall always using a "?"
> as a shorthand for "print" and thus cram lots of stuff on each line, but then
> when printing, each line could exceed whatever buffer was alotted...
> 
> If I somehow transfer the applesoft files as binaries, has anyone ever produced
> a token parser that can run on them under UNIX?  Even if not I remember an
> Apple II emulator circulating about 15 years ago I could probably use to some
> advantage...
> 
> Really its one particular applesoft program of mine that was even referenced
> in a 1982 NY Times article that I'd like to recover... but there is also some
> good stuff in pascal.

If you only need to transfer a fairly small number of files, the easiest
procedure
would be to do this:

Hook up your Apple II to your UNIX computer via a null modem serial
cable.  Run some
software on the UNIX end which captures everything arriving on the
serial line to
a text file.  Make sure the Apple and the UNIX end agrees on bit rate,
parity, etc.

To transfer an Applesoft file, do like this:  boot Apple DOS, type
PR#<n> where <n>
is the slot number of your serial card.  Then type LIST

To transfer Pascal text files do this: boot Apple Pascal, and in the
File Manager
(or whatever it's called in that environment), choose TRANSFER, select
the file
you want to transfer, and choose the target as REMOUT: if your serial
card is in
slot 2, or PRINTER: if it's in slot 1 (you might need to type them as
:REMOUT or
:PRINTER though --- don't quite remember since it was so long I did this
myself).

Finally, close your capture file at the UNIX end and edit it the way you
want it.


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