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!