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HP-KERMIT DOS DISTRIBUTION DISC - Version 1.03
Mar 20, 1990
Congratulations on obtaining a copy of KERMIT for the
Hewlett-Packard Family 9000 Series 200/300 BASIC Workstation.
I hope that you find the program useful in meeting your file
transfer needs.
This program will operate only on the HP-BASIC Workstation,
and not on the PC-BASIC Language Co-Processor, nor will it
run on the HP-BASIC/UX Language product for hp-ux due to a
lack of sufficient Serial Interface support in those
products.
This is a modified version of the HP-KERMIT LIF distribution
diskette. It contains HP-KERMIT in two formats, a DOS text
format, and a LIF PROG file image existing on DOS media. A
utility program called HPWUTIL.EXE has been included on the
disc to allow you to copy the LIF File images from the DOS
distrbution disc to an HP-LIF disc.
The HPWUTIL.EXE program is part of HP's 82300B BASIC LANGUAGE
CO-PROCESSOR product and is Copyright (C) Hewlett-Packard.
Permission is granted to use the product for installing the
HP-Kermit distribution disc.
If you have obtained the 82300 BASIC Processor Card for the PC
you can use the BASIC copy command to copy files directly from
this installation disc to a LIF disc. Without the
Hardware product you must use the HPWUTIL.EXE Utility.
Remember - the Processor Card can only be used to COPY the
files to a S/200/300 LIF disc - you cannot run KERMIT on the
PC-Coprocessor Card.
If you are using version C.00.00 or later of the Processor
Card Software, please note that the KERMIT distribution
disc must be accessed as a LIF (HPW) volume, not a DFS (DOS
File System) volume. That is, you need to access the disc
using:
COPY "HPBKERM:,1500,x" TO "HPBKERM:,1500,x"
rather than using the DFS access method,
COPY "HPBKERM:,DOS,A" TO "HPBKERM:,DOS,B"
This DOS distribution disc is being distributed by Columbia
University - Kermit Distribution Dept. at the Center For
Computing Activities. You may obtain a HP-LIF Distribution
disc from INTEREX HP-Users Group (Membership Required) at
the following Address:
INTEREX
680 Almanor Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94086-3513
Attention: HP Kermit Distribution
=============================================================
IMPORTANT:
The filenames on the distribution disc need to be renamed
before the installation procedure will succeed. This was done
to allow distribution of the files using the HPB (HP BASIC)
suffix, and a 6.3 filename format. The install utility
HPWUTIL.EXE will expect to see different filenames.
CHANGE the following filenames before proceeding !!
Change this Filename to This Filename
--------------------- -------------------
HPBLIF DIR HPWLIF DIR
HPBKER PRG HPBKERM
HPBHLP HPBHELP
HPBINI HPBINIT
HPBMSC HPBMISC
HPBUTL EXE HPWUTIL EXE
HPBSEE ME README
The files on the disc should now correspond with the
disc directory shown below:
=============================================================
After renaming the files,
the files on this diskette include the following:
DOS FILENAME FILE TYPE FILE CONTENTS
HPWLIF DIR 9728 LIF Image File Directory Info
* HPBKERM 194048 LIF-PROG Image Kermit Program
HPBINIT 256 LIF-ASCII Image Kermit Init Script
HPBHELP 11776 LIF-PROG Image Help Subprogram
* HPBMISC 33024 LIF-PROG Image CSUB Source Code
HPBGET 4096 LIF-ASCII Image LIF "README" file
HPBDOC 135680 LIF-ASCII Image Kermit User Manual
HPWUTIL EXE DOS Program Install Copy Utility
HPBDOC PRN 134528 DOS TEXT Kermit User Manual 1.0
* HPBASC TXT 208958 DOS TEXT Kermit Prog (Ascii)
* README 6784 DOS TEXT This README File
* = Files revised 3/20/90
To Install the files on this disc you will need to use the
HPWUTIL.EXE program from DOS. Have ready a LIF Initialized
disc(s) from an HP BASIC Workstation. You will need two
5 inch (blue) floppies, or a grey 3.5 inch floppy. They must be
initialized with 256 byte sectors (normal INITIALIZE command),
and the newer black 1.4 Mb discs cannot be used. If you are
copying the files to a 3.5 inch LIF floppy you will need to
have a 3.5 inch dos disc drive on your PC. External floppy
discs such as the HP-9122 cannot be used, the discs must be DOS
internal drive mechanisms.
COPYING THE DOS - LIF IMAGES TO AN HP-LIF DISC
The DOS-LIF Image files are known as HPW (HP Workstation)
files. You will be copying from a HPW volume to a LIF Volume.
The following steps show you how to use the HPWUTIL program to
install the Kermit files:
In the following example the DOS Kermit Distribution Disc is in
drive A: and the HP LIF Formatted disc is in drive B:
(1) A:> HPWUTIL Run the Utility Program
(2) Press F2 Press the COPY Option
(3) Press F5 Select HPW to LIF Copy
(4) Type Source DOS Directory (KERMIT Distribution Floppy)
A:\ <enter>
(5) Type the Destination LIF Drive Name
B: <enter> (S/200/300 LIF Floppy)
WARNING: DO NOT ACCIDENTALLY INSTALL THE FILES TO A DOS HARD DISC
THIS MAY CORRUPT THE DOS HARD DISC VOLUME.
(6) "Please insert an HP LIF-Formatted Destination Disc
in drive B:
Warning: The Destination Disc will be completely
overwritten ....
Press <return> to begin copy
(7) You will see the folowing file copy status screen during
copying:
Source: DOS HPW subsystem in directory: A:\
Destination: LIF Disc in drive B:
File Count = x
Copying File: HPBKERM
After the copy is complete you will see the followiung
message on the screen:
"DOS HPW directory to HP-LIF Volume copy is complete.
Number of files copied is 6."
<Hit any key to continue>
(8) To verify the copy operation you can perform a catalog
function (F3) on the destination disc:
From the HPWUTIL main (entry) screen -
(a) Press F3 Catalog Function
(b) Press F1 LIF Disc
(c) B: Type the DOS Drive for the LIF disc
(d) <enter> Press Enter when ready
The LIF Disc is cataloged
(e) <enter> Press <enter> after catalog to exit
(f) Press F8 Press F8 to return to DOS
You can now place the LIF disc into an HP BASIC Workstation
S/200 or S/300 disc drive and LOAD the Kermit PROG file
HPBKERM. You can rename the file to any valid BASIC PROG
filename such as KERMIT3 or HPKERMIT.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Printing the Kermit Documentation from DOS:
The HP-Kermit Users Manual is included on this disc as both a
DOS Text-Formatted Print File and LIF ASCII File. There are no
non-printable or escape sequences in the document. To print
the user manual from DOS use the DOS PRINT command:
C:> PRINT HPBDOC.PRN
Don't try to print the LIF-ASCII document HPBDOC from DOS -
It can only be printed from HP-BASIC.
--------------------------------------------------------------
The HPBASC.TXT File
The HPBASC.TXT is a DOS text listing of the HP-Kermit
Program File. The File is really meant for viewing and printing
from DOS. It can be used to bootstrap the program from a
file transfer or tape with some concerns:
Because the DOS program listing is ascii, all compiled
sections of the HPBERM Program have been replaced with the
BASIC interpreted source code. The program text will run
Kermit at one-forth the speed of the BASIC PROG file because
of the three missing compiled subprograms SUB Spack, SUB
Encode_pack, and SUB Decode_pack. The PHYREC CSUBS are also
missing, and no source is available for these. The PHYREC
CSUBS are part of the BASIC 5.x product from HP and can be
"loadsub'd" from the BASIC Utilities disc with the following
command:
LOADSUB ALL FROM "PHYREC:,7xx,1"
The source code for the Spack, Encode_pack, and Decode_pack
subprograms can be compiled using any supported HP BASIC 5.x
compiler on the BASIC Workstation:
LOAD "HPBKERM"
LOAD BIN "COMPILER"
COMPILE Spack
COMPILE Encode_pack
COMPILE Decode_pack
The entire program could be compiled by entering the
COMPILE command. However this results in increased code size,
and not much more performance if any. Consult the Compiler
manual for compiler directives on optimizing for speed, code
size, etc. Make sure the ! $EOL ON directive is used to
enable End-of-line Interrupts.