Printing from HP-86B ?

[rprosperi]

(07-11-2017 07:33 PM)J-F Garnier Wrote:  The same methods than I proposed for the HP71 can probably work with a HP series 80, see slide 4 of this presentation.
I wonder if it could be possible to save the text data read from DOSLINK into an ASCII file on a disc, and then load this file as a program with GET. This would be an equivalent of the TRANSFORM feature of the HP71/75 to load program from text files. Need a HP series 80 expert here :-)

Thanks, so it's at least feasible and not too hard to try.

How does the DOSLINK device control the flow of file data it sends to the loop? e.g. does it send it line by line ("line" here meaning text up to the endline character) or just a steady stream of file bytes? The sample program is oriented around getting 'lines' of text up to 120 characters, so I'm not sure how it would handle a continuous stream, or a binary file (which on 71B, can be transferred from DOSFILE without problem).

I need to look up the line terminator character(s) for HP-80 text files - odds are this is different than the 71B or 75C formats; it seems this is something HP invented anew for each series of computers....