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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIMA NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 1995
TI-99/4A and PC
by Jan Alexandersson, Springarvagen 5, S-142 61 Trangsund, Sweden
It is easy to transfer TI-Writer (Funnelweb) text files from TI-99/4A to a PC
Computer. The following settings will work with a normal text file with CR at
the end of each paragraph:
TELCO settings:
Terminal setup:
A) emulation mode-VT100
C) cr translation in-CR/LF
D) cr translation out-CR
I) duplex-Half
Q) baudrate-9600 (or 19200 with Myarc RS232)
R) parity-8N1
Screen setup:
D) 40/80 display toggle to 80 for 9938
E) status line toggle-toggle until non-interlace with status line for 9938
File transfer setup
J) send at end of line-Space
Then "save Changes" to disk.
MS Works Terminal settings:
Telephone:
Servive name-TELCO
Communication:
Port-COM1
Baud-9600 (or 19200 with Myarc RS232)
Parity-None
Data bits-8
Stop bits-1
Hand shake-Xon/Xoff
Terminal:
Terminal-VT100
End of line-add LF
Local echo-X
Transmission:
Transmission- MODEM/CRC
Save the settings to a wcm suffix file.
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Upload of file from TI to PCM
Prepare the PC to receive ASCII text file and select a proper file name with
suffix txt (menu or click on the icon catch text). Choose "Upload file" from
TELCO menu with ASCII and select file name. The whole file will be transferred
and you can also see it on the PC terminal screen. The PC screen will only
show the start of each paragraph but everything is saved to the txt file.
Close the PC txt file from the menu or click on the icon.
Go to Word processing in MS Works. Open the txt file and choose "Text for DOS"
instead of "Text for Windows" and open the word processor. This "Text for DOS"
is necessary to get proper national European characters 64, 91-94, 96 and
123-126.
Delete the TAB line at the end of the txt file. Delete all TI formatting
commands and printer control characters. You may also delete a space in front
of each new paragraph except for the first one. This space comes from TELCO
which will add a space at the end of each line (also after CR) which is
absolutely necessary to avoid word to merge at the end and beginning of TI
DIS/VAR 80 record lines. Any part of the text with tables in TI should be
marked and change the PC character set to Courier which has constant width of
all characters. Save the new file as wps for MS Works or as doc for MS Word.
You may also have used TI-Writer (Funnelweb) in program mode without CR at the
end of each line. I have used this for a simple data base for my coin
collection . In this case you should change TELCO File transfer setup J) send
at end of li ne CR and proceed as described above.
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Upload of file to MS Windows Terminal
MS Windows Terminal settings:
Terminal emulationm-VT100
Terminal setting-Local echo X
CR/LF outgoing
CR/LF incoming
Communication-9600 baud (or19200 with Myarc RS232)
8 data bits
1 stop bit
No parity
Xon/Xoff
COM 1
This will work almost in the same way as the MS Works Terminal but I get double
LF on the TELCO terminal but this will not affect the file transfer. I prefer
to use the MS Works terminal because it is more user friendly. The MS Windows
Terminal also has 600 baud which is missing in the MS Works Terminal.
.PL 1