Msg: 6828 *Conference*
10-14-96 23:49:40
From: BILL ADAMS
To : RON WIESEN
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #6823 (LAPTAP)
Thanks for the letter, Ron. Lots of good information I'm still assimilating. And you were quite right about MODE still being around in the latest DOS; don't know why I couldn't find it before. But I'm still having problems doing a straight upload from TELCOM via nullwmodem cable. Maybe you can see what I'm doing wrong. Primary question: Let's say I have a nullwmodem connection to my PC's COM1. The 102's STAT is set for 88N1E. On the PC I type "MODE COM1:96,N,8,1". Now I should use some sort of COPY command, undoubtedly beginning "COPY COM1:". What should that command be? And after I've uploaded from the 102 into the frozen screen PC screen that follows the command, how do I break on the PC side so that a file is saved? (I remember there's a trick to it, but I don't remember what the trick is.) Any help greatly appreciated. I think my main problem is that I can't find a COM port to connect to. My main laptop is out of commission; it's parallel port can be a COM port, no problem, and perhaps once I've fixed the power supply on that laptop I will have no problems. Meanwhile, I've still got two PC's. But the desktop is running under Windows 95 with the device-independent COM1 assigned to the internal modem card; having gone through hell getting that modem assigned and working, I'm reluctant to mess with, say, reconfiguring a serial port as a COM port. That leaves my backup laptop, the earliest version of NEC Ultralite. It has an internal modem, too, which is COM2, interestingly enough. This made me feel that COM1 had to be the *only other available port* -- a passthrough printer port on the unit's external disc drive (which itself connects through a proprietary centronix-type connector, no help there). But maybe there's no COM1 there. I've also failed to drive an external modem through it. Yeah, that's probably my problem. No COM ports until the good laptop is back on its feet. But I could still use answers to the questions above. Thanks for reading this far!