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vk3...@virginbroadband.com.au

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May 10, 2012, 7:02:50 AM5/10/12
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Hi all,

I have an old National Semiconductor SC/MP kit (1976 Microcomputer)
that uses an ASR33 TTY with a paper tape punch and reader as a
console. I use to use the paper tape reader to enter a program using
the operating system called "KITBUG". Using the "M" modify command. I
no longer have the ASR33 TTY and want to use PuTTY on my laptop
computer using the Serial mode.

QUESTION: can I send an ASCII file via PuTTY to the SC/MP micro. And
can I add in delays into the file as PuTTY will operate a lot faster
than the old ASR33 TTY. If not can someone recomand a program that
will work as an ASR33 TTY paper tape reader?

Thanks for your help,

Rod Wall.

Simon Clubley

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May 15, 2012, 8:32:17 AM5/15/12
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What operating system are you using ?

In a Unix environment, I would look at using the transmit command in
C-Kermit instead which will send a file as-is along with optional delays.

Simon.

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vk3...@virginbroadband.com.au

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May 16, 2012, 11:16:10 AM5/16/12
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On May 15, 10:32 pm, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
Hi Simon,

Thanks for your reply. I'm using Windows 7 64bit and PuTTY on a laptop
computer.

Rod.

Simon Clubley

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May 16, 2012, 1:22:06 PM5/16/12
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On 2012-05-16, vk3...@virginbroadband.com.au <vk3...@virginbroadband.com.au> wrote:
> On May 15, 10:32 pm, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
> Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>
>> What operating system are you using ?
>>
>> In a Unix environment, I would look at using the transmit command in
>> C-Kermit instead which will send a file as-is along with optional delays.
>>
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I'm using Windows 7 64bit and PuTTY on a laptop
> computer.
>
> Rod.

[In which case, someone else will have to suggest some other tools suitable
for Windows 7 64 bit mode if the following suggestion does not work; I don't
use, or develop for, any Windows based environments outside of work these
days.]

If all you want is to blindly send a file with some delays, have you
considered using something like Python and writing a small Python script
to do the upload ?

Python comes with a serial port library which may help.

Torfinn Ingolfsen

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May 16, 2012, 4:46:45 PM5/16/12
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On 05/16/2012 05:16 PM, vk3...@virginbroadband.com.au wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I'm using Windows 7 64bit and PuTTY on a laptop
> computer.

Kermit exists for windows 7 too: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
In case that helps.
(I don't use Windows in my personal life)
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Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway

Simon Clubley

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May 16, 2012, 8:10:39 PM5/16/12
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Yes, but you have to pay for it.

With the termination of the Kermit project, some of the source code for
Kermit-95 has been made available, but according to the notes on a
page with links to the source code, you cannot build a working Kermit-95
from it.

Assuming the OP is using a real serial port, I would have suggested he try
MS-DOS Kermit, but I don't think DOS programs can run in a 64 bit Windows 7
environment.
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