Printing from HP-86B ?

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

I would not be surprised if it did lump them together into 256 byte records since that is the the sector size the 80s use. I got the format by firing up Everett's emulator and adding the Edisk ROM then loading the Star Trek program from a games diskette (it was the first one on the diskette image and saving it using SAVE "ASCII:D701" to a blank image, eject the image to ensure the file was updated and them looked at it using a Hex editor. I had a hunch that it stored the line length in the file, and yes they are saved as DATA files because that seems to be as close to a text file as there is on the 80s. The resulting ASCII file I created shows up in the CAT listing as type DATA with 64 256 byte records, but the data inside is definitely variable length.