Customizing Your Configuration—Chapter 5
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5250 Terminal Emulation Programmer’s Guide
Your host personal computer must be running INTERLNK, which is part
of MS-DOS. Load INTERLNK as a device driver in your CONFIG.SYS
file, using the following statement, at the end of the CONFIG.SYS file
(after any other statement that creates a drive letter):
DEVICE=C:\DOS\INTERLNK.EXE /DRIVES:3
ThepreviousstatementassumesthatMS-DOSislocatedinthehostPC
C:\DOS directory. The /DRIVES: 3 parameter allows mapping of three
drives from the 6400 Compu ter or 5055 PC.
INTERLNK and INTERSVR
INTERLNK is a device driver that interconnects a 6400 Computer or
5055 PC and a host personal computer through serial ports. INTERSVR
is the INTERLNK server, a communication option in the Norand Utili-
ties program. These two resources are provided with ROM DOS 6.22 and
are shipped with the 6400 Computer or 5055 PC toolkit. A standard null
mode m cable connects the personal computer to the 6400 Computer or
5055 PC. A TTY TCO M cable also works. A dock is needed for the 6400
Computer or 5055 PC or a communication adapter that plugs onto the
bottom end of the terminal.
INTERLNK causes the 6400 Computer or 5055 PC drives to appear as
virtual drives on the host personal computer, with drive letters
immediately beyond the highest drive letter currently used on the host
personal computer. Typing “INTERLNK” from the host personal
computer command line displays the designations of the redirected drives.
For details of INTERLNK and INTERSVR topics, refer to the DOS
on-line help text.
INTERLNK is installed on a host PC, using the following statement in
the CONFIG.SYS file:
device=c:\dos\interlnk.exe /drives:4
After installation, you can copy the application files to the 6400 Computer
or 5055 PC. To terminate INTERSVR, pr ess [ALT] + [F4].
59XX, 17XX, 11XX Terminals
For a 59XX, 17XX, or 11XX Terminal, use utility program
CHECKCFG.EXE to verify the correctness of your configuration.
Using CHECKCFG to Compile and Decompile Custom Configurat ions
CHECKCFG reads your configuration and literal files, and reports any
syntax errors. It also converts your data files to the proper f ormat for the
TE program.
The ASCII text of the configuration file converts to a compressed binary
format to save space in the terminal. CHECKCFG can reverse the opera-
tion by converting a binary file into its ASCII source. CHECKCFG can
also list set-up parameters, their types, and their allowable values.
To display the program version number and a short message that lists the
different command line formats for the program, type
checkcfg