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PIL Box - communication with an external HP71B Message #1 Posted by Roland Storz on 10 Aug 2010, 4:08 a.m. Hello, since a couples of years I did use the ISA HPIL board, however, since I was trying to switch to PIL Box I have to admit I’m somehow lost (frankly speaking I do not feel like an HPIL expert). I do hope somebody could briefly describe his procedure how to exchange files from the Emu71 HDRIVE1 to a real HP71B and backwards? My “simple” environment looks as follows: Emu71 (latest version), PIL Box (via COM2), ILPer (via COM2), real HP71B FTDI driver installed (driver setup OK), ILCtrl shows Device ID (1): HP71, ILper shows my “hdrive1.dat” in Mass Storage LIF file: (nothing else, no error message) In the past I used the following procedure, which worked perfectly: - communication with an external HP-71B To exchange program and data files with an external HP-71B, just make it a device by typing CONTROL OFF on the HP-71B. Then do RESTORE IO on Emu71. You can now copy files between Emu71 and HP-71B. Emu71 to HP-71B: do 'COPY :LOOP' on the HP-71B do 'COPY file TO :HP71' on Emu71 HP-71B to Emu71: do 'COPY file TO :LOOP' on the HP-71B do 'COPY :HP71' on Emu71 I would be very grateful for any help, Many thanks in advance, Roland,

Re: PIL Box - communication with an external HP71B Message #2 Posted by Raymond Del Tondo on 10 Aug 2010, 12:59 p.m., in response to message #1 by Roland Storz IIRC, you have to use the HDRIVE as buffer when using the PIL box. Thus, a COPY file TO :TAPE (or whatever addr the HDRIVE is) should work;-) However what does the doc say? HTH Raymond

Re: PIL Box - communication with an external HP71B Message #3 Posted by Roland Storz on 11 Aug 2010, 8:21 a.m., in response to message #2 by Raymond Del Tondo Raymond, thanks for the advice, I will try tonight, by the way, which doc are you refering to, is there anything available to look at? Thanks again, Roland

Re: PIL Box - communication with an external HP71B Message #4 Posted by Roland Storz on 11 Aug 2010, 1:21 p.m., in response to message #2 by Raymond Del Tondo Raymond, the COPY to :TAPE works fine, however, to copy the file to :HP71 does not work, on my real HP71b I got: PILERR: File not found Do you have any idea, what I could try to overcome Thanks in advance, Roland

Re: PIL Box - communication with an external HP71B Message #5 Posted by J-F Garnier on 24 Aug 2010, 12:50 p.m., in response to message #4 by Roland Storz Roland, in case you didn't solve the problem yet: latest Emu71 version should work with the PILBox as with the HPIL ISA board, however it may fail on some systems (== not 100% reliable). My recommended method for reliable communication between Emu71 and HP71 with the PILBox is to use the IL-Per software (available on my PIL-Box page): do not declare any XIL in Emu71.ini and use IL-Per as a gateway by sharing the hdrive1.dat file: You can now copy files between Emu71 and HP-71B. Do 'COPY file TO :HDRIVE1' on the one side, then do 'COPY file:HDRIVE1' on the other side. Fast and efficient. J-F

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