[GreenKeys] iTTY and the Volpe USB Interface Board

[Duncan Brown]

John,

Won't your bat file just generate an ASCII bit stream out of the COMM port?

Won't be much good for Paul's M19!

Duncan
K2OEQ

On 08-Feb-21 11:04, John, W9DDD wrote:
> My original send of this to the list was rejected because it contained 
> an executable (the bat file).  So I've added the .txt extension to it. 
> So you need to rename that one by removing the .txt part.
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> I'm going to attach a couple of files I used on my windows 7 laptop.
> You will need to change COMM5 to whatever comm port your Volpe USB 
> board gets assigned.
>
> testfile.txt is a line of RY and a line of THE QUICK BROWN FOX.
>
> I run it in a DOS window obviously.  It will run forever, stop with 
> "control C".
>
>
> I'm trying to recall how I generated a CR LF LTRS sequence in the text 
> file.  Maybe the Volpe USB board took care of that?
>
> Also depending on what editor you might use to change comm ports may 
> do some strange things - plan text vs. UTF?  It probably doesn't 
> matter with the bat file.
>
> John, W9DDD
>
> On 2/8/2021 4:22 AM, Paul Birkel wrote:
>>
>> In the meantime, has anyone set up a simple mechanism on Windows to 
>> read a stream of characters from a file and feed the Volpe USB 
>> Interface Board?  That would be sufficient to meet my immediate 
>> stimulate-and-test the M19 objective.  Sounds like a Unix pipe to me 
>> … so Ubuntu running on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) with Win10 
>> seems like a doable do.  But perhaps I’m being naïve here!
>
>
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