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DATAMAN S4 MANUAL
hen receiving. An ASCII End-of-
File character is not sent when
the
format is set to BINARY because it would be
received as data. Sending
BINARY files from S4 is possible, but may be
difficult to implement
at the receiving end. The computer must expect a
pre-defined size
of block and know where to put it. When receiving
a block in BINARY
format, S4 has no way of knowing when the
computer has finished sending. You
must press ESCape when the transmission is
ended.
<MI>NOTE Computers will not send a BINARY
file through their serial
interface, using PIP or COPY routines, unless you
add a suffix: COPY
needs /B, PIP needs [O]. Otherwise the
transmission is aborted if
an end-of-file (1A) character is seen.<D>
BINARY reception is useful to check other file
formats: every character
that is sent appears in S4's RAM, so you can see
what is really being
received, including carriage returns, line feeds etc.
hen receiving. An ASCII End-of-File
character is not sent when the
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