Connect HP71 to Mac

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L.S.

From the many forum contributions I tried to transfer files from HP71 to Mac and vice versa. The contributions of Sylvain and Dave helped me a lot. This is how I finally succeeded:

Copy files from HP71B to Mac:

Connect Pilbox to Mac usb and HP71B HP-IL

Mac:
Open terminal on Mac
Go to ~/HP-IL/HP71C
Execute command pilbox (script: ~/py311/bin/pyilper)

pyILPER1.8.7:
Under utilities: initialize LIF image file
Name file e.g. tape01.dat
Choose: Top: Drive1, device enabled, drive type HP82161A
Change: choose tape01.dat

HP71B:
EDIT TESTHENK
10 FOR I=1 TO 10
20 PRINT I;I*I;I*I*I
30 NEXT I
40 END
COPY TESTHENK TO :TAPE(1)
COPY TESTHENK TO TST2HENK:TAPE(1)
CAT :TAPE(1)

Copy files from Mac to HP71B:
COPY TST2HENK:TAPE(1) TO :MAIN (mark: only 8 characters)
CAT :MAIN

I hope Sylvain and/or Dave look at it and may have corrections.

Kind regards,
Henk Schellen

[Sylvain Cote]

Hello Henk,

My available time is very limited right now, I will answer in several posts.

Regarding pyilper, you could create an Automator application to start it.

1. start Automator
   
   1. open up a Finder window
   2. go to /Application folder
   3. start Automator
      
2. in Automator startup dialog
   
   1. press on New Document button
      
3. in Automator document type dialog
   
   1. choose Application option
   2. press on Choose button
      
4. in Automator editor window
   
   1. select Action radio button (top-left corner)
   2. select Library list and expand it (left side)
   3. in Library list, select Utilities group, a second list should be displayed
   4. in the second list, drag Run Shell Script to the Workflow pane
   5. type the following in the Run Shell Script box in the Workflow pane
      
      Code:
      

      mkdir -p ~/HP-IL/HP71C
cd ~/HP-IL/HP71C
source ~/py311/bin/activate
~/py311/bin/pyilper --instance=automator
      the above code will start pyilper with its own configuration file for the automator
   6. save your file → [command]+[s]
      
5. in Automator save dialog
   
   1. select /Application folder
   2. in Save As text box, enter your application name (as an example: pyILPER)
   3. press on Save button
      
6. exit Automator application
7. start your new application
   
   1. open up a Finder window
   2. go to /Application folder
   3. start your new application (in my example: pyILPER)
      
   
   

You can now start pyILPER directly for the graphical environment.