HP 48GX to PC Communications

[MNH]

I would like some advice on how to get started with a project. A coworker recently purchased a Tripod Data Systems (TDS) Coordinate Geometry (COGO) card on eBay for his HP 48GX to make his life easier at work. Our field software doesn't have the friendliest COGO, so my coworker wants to use his TDS COGO card to calculate coordinate points. Unfortunately, he will not be able to transfer those points to our Windows 10 tablet for use with our field software.

The TDS COGO card does allow access to its coordinate points file so a user can call a point to the stack. When evaluated the function will return 6 stack levels of data.

6: " " @ A point string
5: 100.000 @ A number
4: 5,000.0000 @ A number
3: 5,000.0000 @ A number
2: 21 @ A number (integer)
1: 1 or 0 @ 1 means the point exists, 0 means it doesn't

If I create a string with a line feed character (■) at the end of each line within the string, will the string be suitable to transfer to a PC?

" "CALC" 100.000 5,000.0000 5,000.0000 21 ■
"CALC" 100.000 5,000.0000 5,400.0000 22 ■
"CALC" 100.000 5,300.0000 5,400.0000 23"

Ultimately, the data must be put into a format (comma-separated values, arranged in a PNEZD format) that is readable by our field software.

21,5000.0000,5000.0000,100.000,CALC
22,5000.0000,5400.0000,100.000,CALC
23,5300.0000,5400.0000,100.000,CALC