HP-71 Compu-LS module

[J-F Garnier]

(03-21-2017 08:53 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  From the 2014 Allschwil meeting, http://www.jeffcalc.hp41.eu/hpil/files/doslink.pdf

Slide 2 suggests this use: Example: importing a program from a PC text file. Seems like that's exactly what I stated. You do need to execute CLEAR :LOOP or CLEAR :DOSLINK to close the files. The hassle with this method is prepending the LIF header to the text file. For that reason I prefer to use pyILPER as a front-end for the Python version of Tony Duell's LIFUTILS.

Well, this sentence on slide 2 may be misleading. On slide 3, I explicitly wrote:"COPY can’t be used to load a vanilla text file from an interface. A simple BASIC program can be used instead." and the process is described on slide 4.

Quote:PC ASCII files and HP71 text files are exactly the same. It's the 75 that has a non-standard text file format. PC ASCII text files are supported on the 75 as LIF1 "Interchange" files.

No, Christoph is right. Before adding the LIF header, the PC text file must be transformed to LIF1 (HP71 TEXT) format, if you want to load it directly with COPY :DOSLINK.

J-F