Re: terminal hacks

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From: BRL... Ben Liblit
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 21:02

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I don't know if this counts as a terminal hack, but....

I was hired last summer to transfer some ancient records from an Apple ][+ onto
a DEC.  The Apple was using old PFS: FILE software, which has very proprietary
storage formats.  So what did I do?  I ran a serial cable from the Apple's
printer port (a card, actually) right into the DEC.  I told PFS: FILE to print
everything, letting *it* take care of decoding the information.  Meanwhile, I
had the DEC thinking that the cable ran to a terminal, and had it logging
everything that came across.

And the best thing was, it actually worked.

                      Ben Liblit
                      BRL102 @ psuvm.bitnet -- BRL102 @ psuvm.psu.edu
                      "Fais que tes reves soient plus longs que la nuit."

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Subject: Re: terminal hacks
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