Enforcer Help
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I have two Amiga 2000's connected together by a PArnet cable. One end is
connected at the Amiga parallele port, the other at port0 of a MulitFace
II card. If I'm running enforcer in the Amiga with the cable at the Amiga
par port, and I use the enforcer that writes to that port, how do I get
the output at the other end into a file to read later?
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I don't recall any terminal programs that can use the parallel port… but you
could always use Enforcer output through the serial port, and easily capture
that on the other side. For that matter, I think there's even a way to divert
the Enforcer output to a terminal program running on the same machine, but I
can't remember how that's done.
I use Enforcer through the serial port connected to a PC running a telecom
program.
John,
I figured I could do it that way, but since I already had a PARNet between
the two I thought I'd try to use the existing cable (laziness is the
mother of invention…)
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Did you check the Enforcer docs? There must've been something like this
available, I do have a vague memory that it's possible. We just need to find
how to receive the parallel data on the receiving end.
John,
There is an icon set up to run enforcer with output directed to the par
port. But the docs say nothing about how to get the data off the other
end. Wonder if it's as simple as "Copy PAR: filename" or something like
that… NAW – tooo easy…
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I'm sure some people simply dumped the output to a printer. I know I couldn't
debug that way, but to each his own… Tricks like CMD of course would only
keep the data on the machine you were debugging.
What, you have all your serial ports tied up?
John,
sure people do send the output to a printer. I did it every time I had to
debug programs which make use of the internal serial device… 🙂
– wkc – … via AP from Hamburg, Germany
Amilink, PSFC, External TBC with software control, and a modem – ties up a
few serial ports… :^}
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I have several switch boxes in sequence to help select between four devices…
I tried adding one in at the video deck end of the AmiLink and PSFC
cables, but they didn't like that (probably not enough isolation for RS
422…)
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Wayne,
Usually when I run Enforcer, I direct its output to a file in a
recoverable RAM drive. I use Richard Waspe's Stat-RAM which seems to
survive even the worst crashes.
Regards,
Shraddhan (via AP from Hertfordshire, England)
I'll be on the lookout for it – thanks
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Wayne,
how about dumping the parallel output straight to a printer?
I run enforcer and NComm set to ASCII capture. With the enforcer
output set to serial the data is bounced off the modem (full duplex)
to a file of my choosing.
This is a long shot because I think it will only work for writes but
would CMD par: dh0:myfile (or similar) work?
Hope this helps.
Nev.
I'm trying to get the output remotely as the crash locks the host machine
in a screen that I can't tell if anything is goin' on and seems to happen
alot on HD access. Remote output will hopefully tell me whats going on
when the 'local' writes to a file can't happen.
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