I sent an e-mail last night but I'm not sure if it was received. Anyway, I thought I'd try to copy from my real ql to a q-emulator ql over the serial port, and I'm getting better results that I was getting using a DOS prompt. I'm getting so close now I can taste it.
Using q-emulator's serial port I have been able to copy complete files back and forth between the emulated and real ql's (no more ctrl-z problems). I just have one last problem with executables. I am able to copy the complete file and if I do a copy mdv1_filename to scr_ on the real and emulated ql's the output on the screen appears identical; but when I try to EXEC the "target" file (the copy) I get "bad parameter", whereas the "source" file runs correctly. I think this must be what several of you have to alluded to with headers. I expect that following the suggestion of zipping the files would help, however, I still have to get zip executable copied across. Does anyone have a solution that might help with this? If there's a good explanation out there regarding these headers and how executables are different, I'd be grateful if you could point me in its direction (I'm beginning to find all this quite interesting ;). > Arnould wrote: > > I did something like this in 1986/87 but only for pure ASCII text > > files. After the file was copied over, the PC still needed an end of > > file control code to understand what happened, CTRL+Z I think, wich > > had to be sent manually with something like: > > That's what the "z" in "ser1hz" is for, no need to do it manually. > > Marcel > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > -- ------------------------------------------------- Visit Pipex Business: The homepage for UK Small Businesses Go to http://www.pipex.co.uk/business-services _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
