Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II Reference Manual page 127

UTILITY PROGRAMS
l~ERMINAL
TERMINAL
This is a versatile program designed to allow communications between the
Model II and another computer running a host program.
TERMINAL
is
designed primarily for transmission and reception of
ASCII
text rather than
machine-language object code.
Input/output is through serial channel A. In most applications, hookup will
be through telephone lines via a modem.
TERMINAL
has three modes of operation:
• Menu - Allows you to select or change options, even execute
TRSDOS
,..--- library commands
• Interactive terminal-Transmits your keyboard input and displays
incoming data
• Transmit from RAM-For high-speed transfer of prepared data. Incoming
data is displayed on the screen.
Figure 1. A typical tenninal/host configuration.
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