Msg: 5555 *Conference*
11-23-94 16:28:42
From: RICHARD HANSON
To : TOM POWERS
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #5554 (UPLOAD TO WINDOWS)
---- I understand your question. Allow me to ramble... T-Word files are simply, ASCII files and nothing more. Both your Model 100 and your DOS computer use the same character set, so transfering these files as they are requires nothing high-tech. Windows is a shell, thus you do not load anything "into" Windows. You are simply coping a file from the RAM in your Model 100 to one of the drive-media in your DOS computer. The Term program bundled with Windows should work just fine. The "garbage" you received probably indicates a parameter miss-match. Start slowly. Set your STAT to 300 baud, 8 bit, No parity, 1 stop bit, Enable xon/xoff ... 38N1E. Set the Term program to the same parameters. Go into the Term program, and into TELCOM on your Model 100. At this point you should be able to key something on one computer and see it on the other. If the above is correct, try an upload from your Model 100 to your DOS computer. Tap your <f3> function key, enter the name of one of the .DO files currently in your Model 100 (do not enter the .DO extension) and hit <enter>. At the "Width" prompt, simply hit <enter>. The file should move clealy, at about 2+ seconds per full video line without garbage. If the above is correct, do it again, but before responding to the "Width" prompt, open a capture file on your DOS computer. Then, upon hitting <enter> on your Model 100, the data stream will go to both the DOS computer's screen and the file you opened on the DOS computer. Once the file has passed, close the file, and you are done. The resulting file, from the efforts above, should be easly read by any word processing program available under Windows, or DOS. Try these steps and report your findings. -Rick-