Printing from HP-86B ?

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(07-11-2017 08:57 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  My point is that DOSLINK uses the COPY command which is not supported by the 82938A. You can use the OUTPUT, ENTER, and TRANSFER commands for transferring data, but I don't know if DOSLINK will work with those.

The 82938A HP-IL test is attached.

Yeah, if making a point about something, you'd think I use the right name. DOSBOX is the other project... sorry 'bout that.

For DOSLINK, we use the COPY command on 71/75, but not here. Also, COPY is a high level user command which is translated into a series of HP-IL lower level commands, depending on the type of target device; if data storage devices are the target, then it sends one set of commands, if an interface device then a totally different set of commands, so COPY support is not relevant in Series-80.

I'm using ENTER to request data from the DOSLINK device, but so far no luck. I'll post the program for other Series-80 experts to pick apart.

Thanks for the Exerciser program; now if only I could get it into the machine....