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> Now I'm trying to get the NADSBox to work with the WP2 without success
Does it entirely fail to work, ie. If you go into the WP-2's TELCOM with F2-9,
can you hit Enter and get the NADSBox command-line prompt? If you get nothing
at all, see below...
> so far. For the moment I'm stuck because my serial cable is not a full
> null cable, so I've got a replacement on its way (snail mail is very
So, unless you've changed the jumpers inside your NADSBox, you actually need a
straight cable - its serial port is wired DCE and doesn't require a null cable
to connect to a Model T or a WP-2 (which are both wired DTE, in spite of what
the connector gender differences imply). The adapter that comes with the
NADSBox is just 25M straight to 9F, and for use with the WP-2 you just want 9F
straight to 9F. At first I used a 9F to 9F cable, then I bought one of those
low-profile 9F-9F gender changers so the NADSBox could hang right off the back
of the WP-2. (Downside is that it fits quite loosely compared with the adapter
Ken provided for use with the Model Ts, and also those compact adapters flip
upside-down so you can only see the reflection of the NADSBox LED in the table
surface.)
> My question is: Does there need to be any kind of file similar to
> DOS100.CO on the SD card for the NADSBox to work with the WP2? Or will
> it "just work"?
No need for any special files - the WP-2 has everything it needs to speak to a
TPDD in ROM.
> Can I also assume that I can just continue to use my existing SD Card
> with the M-100 6.2 filenames on it? Presumably it will just "find" the
> files in the root directory when I do a file listing?
Yes, because the WP-2 was only designed to talk to a real TPDD it isn't aware
of the TS-DOS directory extensions we all know and love, so you will only see
whatever is in the TPDD emulator's current directory. One of the great things
about using the WP-2 with a NADSBox is that you can go into TELCOM and use the
cd command to move around your SD card to the directory you want. When you go
back to FILES and look at the disk contents, that's the directory the WP-2 will
see.
You can read and write 6.2 and 8.2 files from the WP-2. There's a caution in
the NADSBox manual (bottom of page 20) about setting 'config wp2=on' from its
command line first because there are some circumstances under which the WP-2
can crash because it doesn't handle 6.2 filenames elegantly (I'm not going to
paste the whole paragraph here). :)
jim
