Need NEC APC manuals

[Vintage Computer Festival]

Does anyone have manuals for the NEC APC?  I have them, or at least I used
to.  They're here somewhere.  I quite literally tore through my warehouse
tonight looking for them.  I must've opened over a hundred boxes.  Didn't
find them.

I once used my APC to dump a bunch of source code from some 8" CP/M disks
over the serial port using PIP.  I remember I had to do something special
to setup the COMM port to do this.  I've tried messing with STAT to assign
the AXO: port (equivalent to PTP: on most CP/M versions) but nothing I do
works.  When I do pip axo:=b:filename.txt it reads the file and then locks
up.  I can't break or anything to interrupt it.  Nothing comes over the
serial port on my PC end and I don't see any lights blinking on my
breakout box.

I've been trying to get this son of a bitch to work for months now.  But
every time I'm thwarted, and then I look a bit for my manuals where they
should be and they aren't there.  So either there's a small pile of boxes
I still didn't touch tonight and therefore they are still out there
somewhere, or they were raptured.

Anyway, if anyone has the manuals, I need the section on PIP and STAT and
anything having to do with the serial ports.

Help?

Another useful bit of info to know is if there's some test I can do with
PIP or some other utility to send characters down the serial line without
locking up the damn machine.  Any ideas?

Thanks!!

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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