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- ST.DOC
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- ST.EXE is copyright (c) 1990, Ted A. Campbell
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- It may be freely copied as long as a fee is not charged for it, and as
- long as it is used for no commercial purposes.
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- Simple Talk (ST) is a very small and simple communications (terminal)
- program for the PC/XT/AT computers. It was designed principally to allow
- a straight ASCII upload from the PC/XT/AT computers to the ATARI Portfolio,
- since standard communications programs usually filter out non-ASCII
- characters in such uploads. (The Portfolio needs to receive HEXBIN.COM
- as a text file in order to "bootstrap" the system, and thus absolutely no
- codes must be stripped out.)
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- Control-E will bring up a menu. The menu items are as follows:
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- [P] Set Parameters - you can set the COM port (1 or 2), the
- baud rate, the parity, the data bits, and the stop bits.
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- [D] Dial a number. This presumes that you have a Hayes-compatible
- modem, and will dial a specified number using the ATDT command.
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- [R] Receive ASCII. This just begins echoing all input to a
- logfile. Note that the logfile is opened in "append"
- (non-destructive) mode, so that existing text in the
- file will not be destroyed.
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- [S] Send ASCII. This sends a file exactly as read out the
- COM port. This is what you'll need to use to send HEXBIN.COM
- and TMXM2.HEX to the Portfolio from your PC/XT/AT. A dot
- will be shown for every sixteen characters sent, and an MSDOS
- end-of-file marker (Control-Z) will be sent at the end.
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- [X] eXit from the program. You'll be prompted for a Y or N to
- be sure. You can also exit by hitting Control-C at any
- point, but don't hit Control-C twice, because the program
- will exit rather ungracefully.
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- There is no terminal emulation set, but all text to the screen is
- sent out by the BDOS, so that if you have ANSI.SYS or a clone thereof
- installed you should get a reasonable VT100 emulation.
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- Ted A. Campbell
- GENIE: T.CAMPBELL1
- Internet: tcamp%numen@dukeac.ac.duke.edu
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