Using the PIL-Box with the Portable Plus

[rprosperi]

(06-05-2014 10:11 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  

(06-05-2014 09:05 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  How does ILPer, a Win32 app, run on the Portable Plus? Can any Win32 implementation be working on the Plus?

ILPer runs on the PC. The Portable PLUS has an HP-IL interface. The Portables aren't even 100% DOS compatible, much less Win32. Even finding DOS programs that run on the Portables is a challenge.

(06-05-2014 09:05 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  And ILvlif appears to be a step towards what seems to be a never-solved problem, namely, how to easily exchange Windows files with LIF volumes. Much research has revealed there are lots of techniques that 'almost' work, but none that make it a simple file_copy level procedure to extract files from LIF to windows (or Linux, Mac, etc.) or vice-versa.

HPDir works for copying text files to/from LIF images compatible with ILPer and Fdio works nicely for creating LIF disks compatible with a 9114 from those images.

Dave

Thanks for quick reply Dave.

HAH! It never occurred to me the PP was a device, LOL. For a brief moment, I thought to position my question as humor, then realized the truth is much funnier.

My experience with PP was similar; even vanilla DOS utilities were barely compatible, if that. Hence my confusion.

Regarding the other solutions, I've recently read many (!) past threads (many with contributions from you - thank you for that), including the epic posting from Dan MacDonald, and understood that all of them had limitations such as text files only, not recognizing 71/41/75 file types, etc. I have not researched the FDIO solution in detail, perhaps I misunderstood.

Can FDIO be used to read/write arbitrary binary and text files on the PC to/from LIF images?