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From: steve-t@hpfcso.HP.COM (Steve Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Help!  Kermit needed OR HP/IB assist.
Message-ID: <7370004@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Sep 89 17:02:06 GMT
References: <2110@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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// sellswor@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Scott Ellsworth) //
// Subject: Help!  Kermit needed OR HP/IB assist. //
}                                      Someone told me that I should be
} able to send it over the hp/IB bus, but I can't get either end to tell
} me that the other is there when they are connected with an hp/IB cable.

Probably both HP-IB ports are configured as bus controller.  One of them
will need to be switched to non-controller.  I would *guess* that this
would be easier on the 9836, but that's based on experience using HP BASIC,
not Pascal or HP-UX.  I don't know what you need to tell the software
after you make the switch.

}  The 9836 is running what looks like a standard p-system, labelled
}  Demo 2.X1 4-Mar-83.

I don't recognize this identification string.  The current version of the
Pascal Workstation is 3.22.  It looks like a p-system, but the compiler
goes to native code, and the libraries contain HP device I/O and graphics
extensions.  You may need the I/O extensions to talk to the HP-IB as 
non-controller.

// mjb%hoosier.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Mark Bradakis) //
} >I also can't get a directory from the 9836 of the 7958B disk drive,
} >regardless of how it is connected.

} Does the 9836 have a hard disk drive?  You can use lif* to look at LIF
} dirs on the hpux system, but no inverse facilities exist as far as I know
} for reading hpux disks on the pascal system.

The lif* utilities should also work for floppy drives.  Starting with version
3.2 the Pascal Workstation can use the HFS (HP-UX) disk format, in addition
to LIF.
						Regards, Steve Taylor

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