Terminal-Program with Filetransfer for Atari-Portfolio with Serial-Adapter
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!!! New version 4.0, jan 1996
!!! changes:
!!! one version for portfolio and pc, machine type beeing recognized
!!! automatically.
!!! Fixing minor bugs, mainly in the unix version srec/ssen_ux.

Designed to be a simple terminal-program for test-purposes (just tty, no
vt100-emulation) and for quick filetransfer between portfolio and IBM-PC.
Some special features: Complete backup of portfilo drive a: or c: with
key CNRTL-F4. Download of hexfile to embedded-System-computers (example
code for target system in 6502-assembler available).
Program will display help screen at start time.

Program:

SFT.EXE : executable for IBM-PC and Atari Portfolio

Differences in the serial adapters of pc and portfolio are handled in the
code, the machine type beeing recognized automatically.
The serial adapters receiver routine is interrupt driven.

SFT.EXE is generated by the script:

MKSFT.BAT

The serial adapters code is written in assembler, the main part of the
program in C. Eh'm... not exactly in C, but my personal version of C. (Don't
worry, it's C but instead of putting all these {}-brackets I use indentation.
The translation-program, in_br is included, executable and source version.
The "special" versions of the sources have extension ".i", the C-versions
".c". I used A86-shareware-assembler and Turbo-C-1.0-compiler.

Program messages are in english as provided (executables and batchscripts
mentioned above). The language can be easily changed, because all messages
are put in one file, SFTEMES.I(.C), you just have to translate that file
to your laguage (sftgmes should be the german version, but I never did it).

Sources for Atari-ST, Minix and UNIX are also included. The UNIX/Minix-programs
are different from DOS and Atari-ST-versions. They assume that you are
,logged in the UNIX-System, using
portfolio or PC running sft_xxx.exe as terminalprogram and call srec_ux
(resp. ssen_ux) on the UNIX-System.

The Atari-ST version wasn't maintained for a long time. I'm not shure if
it is still running properly. May have to suffer small changes. If someone
has problems with this version, I'll try to help.

Copyright: Program is put to the public domain. It may be distributed and
used without charge. No commercial distribution without agreement of the
author.

Rolf Henze
Schillerstrasse 42
D-37083 Goettingen
email: henze@hrz.uni-kassel.de
phone: +49-551-74124

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