To: 999 (all members)
From: K3H (ALBERT SCHOFIELD.)
Subject: TAPE TO DISC ON THE BBC B
Last month I dealt with transferring
SHADOW tape copier onto disc. On the
same cassette as SHADOW is a utility
called INSPECTOR which allows one to
scroll through memory and alter it if
needed.
INSPECTOR is in three parts,
INSPECTOR, Sinner? which is in 300
baud and INSPECT2.
To transfer INSPECTOR to disc a short
loader program is needed as follows:-
10*LOAD INSPEC2
20*TAPE
30CALL&74DA
Save this to disc as INSPECT.
Now load in INSPECTOR as normal from
cassette. Then select T from the menu
to terminate. Now save to disc using:-
*SAVE INSPEC2 6ED0+CDC 74DA
Chaining INSPECT will now load and
run INSPECTOR.
If you wish to load a program into
memory using INSPECTOR you will still
have to load it from tape as INSPECTOR
uses a null string.
It is possible to load a program into
memory from disc for use with
INSPECTOR. First press break which
will put INSPECTOR into disc mode.
Then press L from the menu and when
the message 'FILE NOT FOUND' appears,
load in a program from disc. Then
enter CALL&74DA to reactivate
INSPECTOR.
To: 999 (all members)
ReplyTo: D6G (Sprow)
From: K8G (Jonathan Harston)
Subject: Web Access from Beebs
Robert Sprowson wrote about reading
Web pages with a BBC. He mentioned:
> I believe that there is a TCP/IP
> program that can be used with Econet
> (though there'll need to be an
> Archimedes as the fileserver.
Why would you need an Arc as the
fileserver? If you want to be
fileserveing over Econet, any
fileserver will do. You're confusing
Econet - a transmission medium - with
file serving - a distributed service.
There isn't yet a TCP/IP program for
the Beeb, I've been working on one.
However, there is a TelNet program for
the Beeb that uses Econet. This is
probably what you were thinking about.
Beeb Telnet is just a standard TelNet
client, the same as the one for the
Arc that comes with NFS or OmniClient.
It sends it's packets across a network
to the server it's connected to. The
actual network is irrelevant. On the
Beeb with standard NetFS the only
network available is Econet, so Beeb
TelNet sends over Econet. If the
server you wish to TelNet to is also
on the same Econet, then that's all
there is. (This is exactly what I did
in HK where the server was a RISCiX
machine with an Econet card.)
If your server is on another network,
such as an Ethernet, or completely
externally via a dial-up service, then
you need a gateway machine. A gateway
passes network traffic between two
different network types. (In HK the
RISCiX also had an Ethernet card, and
so I could TelNet from any machine on
the Econet to any machine on the
Ethernet.)
And a final note: TelNet is a remote
logon system. It's basically a
terminal system, such as you would use
to use a bulletin board. You connect
to the other system as a user on that
system as though you were connected
directly. Then you can give commands
such as 'ls' to list the current
directory or 'cd' to change directory.
To: 999 (all members)
ReplyTo: E6F (John Clarkson)
From: K8G (Jonathan Harston)
Subject: Watford DFS 1.43
John asked:
What does the 1.43 mean?
The 1.43 is the version number. Just
as there are Acorn DFSs 0.90, 1.20,
2.00, 2.24, etc.
In the specific case of Watford DFS,
the first digit is a 1.
If the second digit is a '4' it is a
8271 DFS. If it is a '5' it ia a 1770
DFS and will have DDFS capabilities.
If the third digit is a '3' or lower,
there is no Tube support code. If it
is '4' there is Tube support code.
In summary:
1.43: 8271 1.53: 1770
1.44: 8271 + Tube 1.54: 1770 + Tube
As far as I know there are no versions
after 1.44/1.54.
To: 999 (all members)
ReplyTo: E6F (John Clarkson)
From: K8G (Jonathan Harston)
Subject: Wants # instead of £
The easiest way to get your printer to
print a hash instead of a pound is to
change the font DIP switches. The
switches should be somewhere
underneath the print carriage, or
possibly on the back of the case.
There is usually a block of 8 and a
block of 4. The block of 4 should all
be set to ON to select font 0 - USA.
This will give you the hash symbol for
character 35 instead of the pound.
Unfortunately, you then have the
problem of getting a pound to print
out. There are various ways of doing
it, but basically, you can't get a
pound by just sending £ to the
printer. It will always come out
looking like ' as printers all think
that character 96 is a ' symbol.
What all the solutions do is intercept
you trying to print '£' and replacing
it in the print queue with 'Select UK,
Print #, Select US' - which gives a £.
If you are printing from a word
processor, then it's printer setup
system will allow you to set how to
get a pound printed. Eg, for View,
you need a View Printer Driver
Generator such as VPDG or MakeLP. In
Interword it is on one of the menus.
I'm not sure about WordWise - perhaps
another member can help here?