HP-71 Compu-LS module

[Dave Frederickson]

Hi Tom,

(03-22-2017 08:46 PM)twa14 Wrote:  I'm looking at a document of JF Garnier from the Allschwil meeting of 1/11/14. I shows an EMU71/Win 71B overlay with a doslink dialogue box above it showing inputs for an outfile and an infile. ILper is totally different.

This is an old version of DOSLink. ILPer now incorporates DOSLink.

HOWEVER, DOSLink isn't as easy to use as HPDir or pyILPER, so lets work our way up to DOSLink.

Quote:I realize that I do not understand what 9114B and HDRIVE1.dat files are in Ilper. How do you use these?

Those controls allow you to select a LIF disc file image which ILPer (and pyILPER) then use to emulate a 9114 disc drive. This is the easier method of transferring a file compared to DOSLink.
Didn't you use these controls to load the LEX files?

Quote:Why cant I copy a file to one of these and use as a 9114B substitute?

That is the method we'll use to copy the text file to the 71. See Step 2.b. in Post# 61.

Quote:How do I get the text file back into the printer window in ILper for transfer to the physical 71B? Do I need to have a special ROM mounted in EMU71/Win?

You can't. Like a real printer, the Printer emulator is only an output device. We'll use one of the mass storage emulations.

The first step in all of this is to get the DOS text file onto a LIF disc image. Then it's a simple matter of COPYing the file from the LIF disc image to the 71.

So back to my question, are you more comfortable with the command-line tool or the Python version of ILPer?

Dave