Printing from HP-86B ?

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

(07-11-2017 10:32 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  

(07-11-2017 10:17 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  Use the emulator to import the file, save to LIF, use HPDrive to download to Series 80.

Roughly right, but S80 doesn't natively know how to import text files (like a TRANSFORM) it must be done via the GETSAVE binPRGM, which I'm hunting down later (on one of far too many vaguely labeled diskettes).

Did you find that program somewhere or just type it in?

Bob,

The GET and SAVE commands are part of the Electronic DISK ROM, which you may have installed.

The format is as follows each line starts with one byte 0xdf followed by the line length in hex, followed by a byte of zero and ending with a byte of 0x0d the length is from the first byte after the byte of 0 which should be the first character of the line number and includes the 0x0d at the end of the line.

Code:


df 1b 00 31 30 20 21 20 2a 2a 2a 20 53 54 41 52 20 54 52 45 4b 20 56 45 52 20 33 2e 35 0d 
          1  0     !     *  *  *     S  T  A  R     T  R  E  K     V  E  R     3  .  5

Paul.