ILPer v1.44 update

[Christoph Giesselink]

(10-08-2014 11:51 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  1. Does any name that starts with "HP9914..." get interpreted by the Portable Plus as a real HP drive, and therefore it tries to use SS/80 protocol?

I'm not owner of a Portable Plus, but cutting behind "HP9914" make sense, because you have two disc drives "HP9914A" (5.25'' disc) and "HP9914B" (3.5'' disc) using the same command set.

(10-08-2014 11:51 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  2. Are there restrictions on what name I can use for the emulated drive? For example, can I use HDRIVE1 for my first ILPer session (on virtual loop), and HDRIVE2 for 2nd ILPer session, etc? Can I use any name, e.g. ILPER1 ?

There're restrictions on some calculators with names, so you cannot use the ID$ of the generic printer "DISPLAY", because DISPLAY is a reserved name like MASSMEM on the HP71 for a group of display drives. With the HP71B you have the possibility to access a device by three methods:

1. by address ":1"
2. by type ":MASSMEM(1)" or short ":MASSMEM"
3. by name ":HP9114B(1)" or short ":HP"
   

With the HP71 there are several possibilities to access a device by name. Let us assume we have two ILPer sessions in one loop, the mass storage in the 1st ILPer session has the name HDRIVE1, in the 2nd session HDRIVE2.

When you now want to show the directory of the 1st mass storage you can say:

• CAT:2
• CAT:MASSMEM
• CAT:HDRIVE1
• CAT:HDRIVE1(1)
• CAT:HD
• ...
  

When you now want to show the directory of the 2nd mass storage you can say:

• CAT:4
• CAT:MASSMEM(2)
• CAT:HDRIVE2
• CAT:HDRIVE2(1)
• CAT:HD(2)
• ...