[Techtoolslist] Directory success !!! (for HDR that is.)

[Martin White]

Maybe not dial up, but some of us are on the slowest of the slow mobile signals from time to time. Though in fairness my email client deals with that by only downloading the first few hundred k of a message and asking me before grabbing the rest.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andre Huijts
Sent: 12/12/2012 20:53
To: jrr at flippers.com; Technical Tools Mail List
Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] Directory success !!! (for HDR that is.)

Dial-up ? you're kidding right ?



Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad

Op 12 dec. 2012 om 21:18 heeft John Robertson <jrr at flippers.com> het volgende geschreven:


> Andrew Welburn wrote:

>> hey john.. i sent a response about this but it hasn't shown, is there a spam filter stopping me somewhere?

>> 

>> Andrew Welburn

>> http://www.andys-arcade.com

> 

> The message was getting too big, (over 40K) so the system sends me a note every now and then and holds the message.

> 

> I can increase the allowable message size, but this one is approaching 80K so I figure that some people may still be on dialup and would prefer not to get large messages. I think I'll make a separate post on this to find out...

> 

> John :-#)#

>> 

>> On 12/12/2012 16:37, John Robertson wrote:

>>> David Shoemaker wrote:

>>>> I am really curious about the PARTLIB directory and what that is all

>>>> about.

>>>> Why are there TTL chips and connectors on the 9100?

>>>> 

>>>> David

>>> 

>>> The TTL etc parts are on the Library discs - these are so you can build

>>> Guided Fault tests...the 9100 is quite a powerful machine!

>>> 

>>> The 9100A manuals, while rather thick, have many surprises buried in them.

>>> 

>>> There are 9100A training courses in the files, you may want to review them:

>>> 

>>> Fluke/PDFs/Training and Troublshooting/9100A Training (spll chck brokn)

>>> 

>>> John :-#)#

>>>> -----Original Message-----

>>>> From: techtoolslist-bounces at flippers.com

>>>> [mailto:techtoolslist-bounces at flippers.com] On Behalf Of Andre Huijts

>>>> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 1:44 PM

>>>> To: Technical Tools Mail List

>>>> Subject: [Techtoolslist] Directory success !!! (for HDR that is…)

>>>> 

>>>> Thanks to Martin's instruction file about setting up RS-232 comms

>>>> between a

>>>> PC and the 9100 AND one of his e-mails about the backup utility I

>>>> succeeded

>>>> in getting a directory from the HD in the 9100.....

>>>> 

>>>> I remembered that I still had one of those blue "Laplink"  cables,

>>>> very nice

>>>> null-modem cable with on one end a sub-9 D and on the other both a

>>>> sub-9 and

>>>> a sub-25 (?)

>>>> So that fitted perfectly. I used my ancient Toshiba T1910 that I recently

>>>> dug-out to set-up my Needham EMP-10 EPROM programmer. I searched a bit

>>>> for a DOS terminal program and I found CONEX75.

>>>> 

>>>> I was typing messages from and to the 9100 right away ! :)

>>>> 

>>>> Following the instructions about the Backup utility (which turned out

>>>> to be

>>>> already installed) and using the "capture to file" option I succeeded in

>>>> getting a complete directory.

>>>> 

>>>> I could have used my USB to RS-232 cable and the Mac just as well of

>>>> course

>>>> but this was only to see if I got it to work at all...

>>>> 

>>>> Reading further in the PDF I saw that it is not possible to just get a

>>>> directory from a floppy. (The only directory you can get from a floppy is

>>>> from a backup set, using the last disk of the set)

>>>> 

>>>> Moved the file using "sneaker net" to the Mac and now I am going to

>>>> bore you

>>>> guys with the entire directory ! :)

>>>> 

>>>> If there is anything wrong (that I should remove) or interesting down

>>>> here....please let me know :)

>>>> 

>>>> 

>>>> Contents of directory /HDR/

>>>>        Filename            Size     Write Protected    Date    Time

>>>>  ======================  =========  ===============  ===============

>>>>  Info                           47        Protected  09/11/26  21:25

>>>>  MEVALID                         0        Protected  93/10/19  17:12

>>>>  NDISKS                          2        Protected  91/07/24  14:48

>>>>  TEXT$BACKUP.DIR                 0                   09/12/09  22:54

>>>>  ZYSETIOMOD                    944        Protected  90/07/19  14:29

>>>>  ZYSETKYSEQ                   1120        Protected  90/07/19  14:29

>>>>  ZYSETMISC                     116        Protected  90/07/19  14:29

>>>>  ZYSETPOD                      628        Protected  90/07/19  14:29

>>>>  ZYSETRAMRO                     24        Protected  90/07/19  14:29

>>> ...

> 

> 

> 

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