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- KERMIT FOR JOYCE LOEBL MAGISCAN 2 IMAGE PROCESSOR
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- This is an adaptation of the Terak p-System Kermit to run on the Joyce Loebl
- Magiscan 2 image processor. New features added are as follows:
-
- - added ability for the parser to recognize digits,
- this enabled a Baudrate command to be implemented
- - added a command to set a work disk, set disk #.
- - The IO subroutines were put into an unit RS232 and
- changed to suit the Magiscan.
- - put the parser back into an unit since the Magiscan has 128K
- available.
- - modified the constants for the screen because the Magiscan only
- has 64 columns.
- - Added a unit SysUnit to enable the user to interogate the
- current work disk and delete files if so wishes.
- - Added a unit FileHandle which gives routines for accessing
- files for reading and writing, the old version of this didn't
- close a file if there was an unsuccessful receive/send this
- is now fixed.
- - Modified the Buffer empty and fill routines to use these.
- - Added the ability to do eight bit prefixing and the necessary
- routines for this.
- - Have added a new command called TRANSFER ( do a TRANSFER
- TYPE <type> ), which enables transfers of image,data,code and
- text 'types'.
- - There is also image LOAD routine implemented, this allows
- the images to be loaded from disk and transfered to the Host
- straight from image memory.
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- Features such as the ability to do 8-bit prefixing should be adaptable back
- into the original Terak implementation and derivatives of this.
-
- Henry Balen
- Environmental Science Department
- Lancaster University
- Lancaster UK
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