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Assigning Virtual Drive B
If you are using a desktop computer that has disc drive A but no
physical drive B (for example, a desktop PC can have a single floppy disc
drive A, virtual drive B, and a hard disc drive, C), execute
BEFORE you run HPLINK.
Otherwise, the screen displayed by HPLINK might be overwritten by messages
from the desktop PC as you use drive B. Also, the HP Portable might "time-out"
while waiting for you to insert a disc in drive B.
To recover from a "time-out", type "A" (abort) in response to the Portable
message:
ABORT, RETRY, IGNORE?
Disc Operations
Using your HP Portable, you can read and store files on desktop PC discs
that were formatted using DOS 1.0 or greater.
Since HPLINK is a file transfer utility, you can store and retrieve files
from desktop PC discs, but you can't format those discs from a Portable.
Note: Although a desktop PC and a Portable use similar operating systems,
.COM files that run on one computer might not run properly on the other.
EXAMPLE: Suppose you want to copy a worksheet from drive A of your
Portable to a desktop PC disc so you can work on it using the desktop PC.
Assume the desktop PC has two disc drives and the Portable has no external
drives. Also, assume that the name of the file to be copied is PROJ.WKS.
To transfer the file, you would:
1. Set the number of external disc drives in the system configuration
screen of the Portable to 2.
2. With the interface program disc in desktop PC drive A, type:
3. Remove the software disc from drive A and insert a disc for data.
4. On the HP Portable, type:
A copy of the file is now on the disc in drive A of the desktop PC.
5.4 Using A Desktop PC Printer
If you want to use a printer that is connected to the desktop PC, select
Printer on the HPLINK menu. The printer is available to the Portable, and
the desktop PC appears as a printer on HP-IL. (Note that when you select
Printer, the desktop PC disc drives are no longer on the loop.)
(The ASSIGN command is a .COM file on the DOS disc.)
COPY A:PROJ.WKS C:
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ASSIGN C = B
HPLINK.
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