Epson PF10 problems

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Saturday 24 December 2005 05:43 pm, Tony Duell wrote:
> > Looking in my archives,  I show (in more or less alphabetical order) the
> > following:
> >
> > EPOXLINK.LZH    Transfer program specific to Osborne Executive (I have
> > one) EPSLINK.LZH        Transfer program for cp/m machine - same UI as
> > FILINK (That one is assembly source)
> > FILINK.LZH           unix equivalent to EPSLINK
> > PROMFORM.LZH program & doc file for burning eproms
> >
> > ...and a few others.  That "FILINK.LZH" sound like the one you're looking
> > for?
>
> Two questions :
>
> 1) How to I get to your archives (URL?)

They're not currently online.  This stuff was,  up until a couple of months 
back,  on a BBS that I ran here,  but my front end mailer program developed 
some sort of a glitch where it would hang up on incoming calls within 7-8 
seconds,  and I didn't get into figuring out why that was,  instead thinking 
I would port things over to linux,  only I haven't gotten through compiling 
all of that yet.  I can email you stuff that's of interest.

> 2) How do I uncompress a .LZH file? I was never a big CP/M user back when
> it was current, my Z80 machines were TRS-80s running LDOS. When I got the
> Model 4, I got CP/M with it, but I much prefered LS-DOS (or TRS-DOS 6,
> which is essentially the same thing). Yes, there's more software for
> CP/M, but if yoy didn't want that software, LS-DOS was a much nicer OS
> IMHO.

That's something I did under dos.  The early versions of LZH were usable under 
CP/M and gave slightly better compression than "Squeezing" or "Crunching" 
them did,  pkzip from version 2 onwards compressed better yet but wasn't able 
to be extracted under CP/M because of memory limitations,  so I settled on 
LZH files instead.  I suppose I could probably fire up the dos box and 
extract what you wanted out of the archives,  and then somehow get it over to 
this machine where I'd email it out.  Or find me an LZH-extractor that runs 
under linux,   which would probably be easier...

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