ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 1995 LIMA NEWSLETTER
 
     SAVING AND LOADING DIRECTLY BETWEEN FUNNELWEB 
     AND AN IBM COMPATIBLE PC  
          by Charles Good 
          Lima Ohio User Group 
                                
          Using the Funnelweb editor you can use LF and SF to LoadFiles and
     SaveFiles directly to and from a hard drive or floppy disk on an IBM
     compatible PC.  You can use the IBM's hard drive to store all your
     important text files! This can be sometimes be done at very fast
     transfer rates comparable to saving and loading text using a 99/4A
     disk, and you don't need a modem on either the TI or the IBM 
 
          What you do need is an IBM and TI computer cabled together
     between the TI's serial port and an IBM com port, usually COM2.  You
     can't use a store baught serial cable for this because the TI serial
     port is not quite standard.  I had L.L. Conner make my cable.  You may
     be able to make your own.  The needed pin connections for such a cable
     are these: 
          TI..IBM 
          1----1 
          2----2 
          3----3 
          6----20 
          7----7 
          20---6 
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          TO SAVE TEXT FROM FUNNELWEB TO THE IBM: 
          On the IBM start Windows and go to the Accessories window.
     Activate the Terminal program.  Click on "Settings".  Then click on
     "Terminal Preferences" and make sure CR does not generate CR/LF (if
     the box has an x in it, click on the box to turn off the x) and that
     you are in 80 colums.  Accept these settings by clicking on ok. 
 
          Click on "Settings" again and then click on "Communications".
     Select either 19200 or 9600 baud, odd parity, 7 data bits, and the
     proper COM port.  Then click on ok.  I havn't figured out how to save
     8 bit characters (Funnelweb's extended IBM graphics set) directly to
     an IBM using this technique.  You may want to experiment with the baud
     rate.  On my Geneve I can use a baud rate of 19200 without losing
     characters at the IBM end or causing an error message at the Geneve.
     On my 99/4A system I can only use 9600.  On both systems I have a TI
     RS232 card.  Cable length and the peculiarities of your system may
     dictate that you use a slower baud rate.  When using 19200 to save
     text the speed of this save is at least as fast as saving to TI floppy
     disk. 
 
          Click on "Transfers" and then click on "Receive Text File".
     Select or create a file name, drive letter, and directory.  Then click
     on ok.  If asked say you want to override the existing log file.  Now
     you are ready to receive text from Funnelweb. 
 
          Write your document or LF a document into the Funnelweb editor.
     First set up the IBM Terminal program as described above, then enter
     SF from Funnelweb's command line.  Use "RS232.BA=19200" (or BA=9600 on
     a 99/4A system) as the SaveFile file name.  Yes I know the TI's RS232
     isn't supposed to be able to handle a baud rate of 19200, but on my
     Geneve it works for me! You need to specify the same baud rate in
     Window's Terminal and Funnelweb's SF file name.  Once you enter the SF
     file name your text will flow out of Funnelweb and across the serial
     cable into your IBM.  You will see the text appear on the IBM screen.
     When the IBM cursor stops displaying more text move the mouse pointer
     of the IBM and click on "Stop".  Your Funnelweb text has now been
     saved to an IBM disk as an 80 column ascii text file with no control
     characters and no tab markings. 
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          TO LOAD TEXT FROM AN IBM INTO FUNNELWEB: 
          First load the Funnelweb editor.  If you are using a Geneve load
     the Funnelweb editor from GPL (you can use speed 5) rather than using
     EXEC.  When using EXEC v2.11 on the Geneve I can't break out of the
     RS232 loading process although I seem to remember that I could with an
     earlier version of EXEC.  From Funnelweb's command line type LF and
     specify "RS232.BA=600" as the file name.  Press enter and Funnelweb
     will appear to lock up as it waits for text to flow in from the RS232.
     You can't use baud rates faster then 600 for LoadFile even though you
     can use much faster baud rates to save files. 
           
          Now set up the Windows Terminal program.  Click on "Settings"
     then on "Communications" .  Click on 600 baud, 7 bit, Odd parity, the
     proper com port, and then click on ok.  Now click on "Transfers" and
     then click on "Send Text File".  Select the file name and drive of the
     text file you are loading into Funnelweb and click on ok.  At this
     point text will start flowing into Funnelweb and you will see line
     numbers increment at the right of the Funnelweb v5.x command line. 
           
          When text stops flowing across the IBM screen and when
     Funnelweb's line numbers stop incrementing on Funnelweb's command line
     this means all the text is now in the TI's text buffer.  Press FCTN/4
     (the Break key) and then <enter> to display this text on the TI's
     screen.  It is this FCTN/4 keypress that fails when I load Funnelweb
     into my Geneve using Exec instead of GPL. 
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