Terminal-Program with Filetransfer for Atari-Portfolio with Serial-Adapter
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Designed to be a simple terminal-program for test-purposes (just tty, no
vt100-emulation) and for quick filetransfer between portfolio and IBM-PC.
Some special features: Complete backup of portfilo drive a: or c: with
key CNRTL-F4. Download of hexfile to embedded-System-computers (example
code for target system in 6502-assembler available).
Program will display help screen at start time.

Programs:

SFT_IBM.EXE  : executable for IBM-PC
SFT_PTF.EXE  : executable for Portfolio

Programs are identical, except minor differences in the serial adapters
code, due to hardware incompatibilities of portflio and PC (c.f. reference
manual of portfolio). The serial adapters receiver routine is interrupt
driven.

The 2 versions are generated by the scripts:

MK_IBM.BAT
MK_PTF.BAT

The serial adapters code is written in assembler, the main part of the
program in C. Eh'm... not exactly in C, but my personal version of C. (Don't
worry, it's C but instead of putting all these {}-brackets I use indentation.
The translation-program, in_br is included, executable and source version.
The "special" versions of the sources have extension ".i", the C-versions
".c". I used A86-shareware-assembler and Turbo-C-1.0-compiler.

Program messages are in english as provided (executables and batchscripts
mentioned above). The language can be easily changed, because all messages
are put in one file, SFTEMES.I(.C), you just have to translate that file
to your laguage (sftgmes should be the german version, but I never did it).

Sources for Atari-ST, Minix and UNIX are also included. The UNIX/Minix-programs
are different from DOS and Atari-ST-versions. They assume that you are
,logged in the UNIX-System, using
portfolio or PC running sft_xxx.exe as terminalprogram and call srec_ux
(resp. ssen_ux) on the UNIX-System.


Copyright: Program is put to the public domain. It may be distributed and
used without charge. No commercial distribution without agreement of the
author.

Rolf Henze
Schillerstrasse 42
D-37083 Goettingen
email: henze@hrz.uni-kassel.de
phone: +49-551-74124

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