Maybe not dial up, but some of us are on the slowest of the slow mobile signals from time to time. Though in fairness my email client deals with that by only downloading the first few hundred k of a message and asking me before grabbing the rest. -----Original Message----- From: Andre Huijts Sent: 12/12/2012 20:53 To: jrr@flippers.com; Technical Tools Mail List Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] Directory success !!! (for HDR that is.) Dial-up ? you're kidding right ? Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad Op 12 dec. 2012 om 21:18 heeft John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com> het volgende geschreven:

Andrew Welburn wrote:

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hey john.. i sent a response about this but it hasn't shown, is there a spam filter stopping me somewhere?

Andrew Welburn http://www.andys-arcade.com

The message was getting too big, (over 40K) so the system sends me a note every now and then and holds the message.

I can increase the allowable message size, but this one is approaching 80K so I figure that some people may still be on dialup and would prefer not to get large messages. I think I'll make a separate post on this to find out...

John :-#)#

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On 12/12/2012 16:37, John Robertson wrote:

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David Shoemaker wrote:

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I am really curious about the PARTLIB directory and what that is all about. Why are there TTL chips and connectors on the 9100?

David

The TTL etc parts are on the Library discs - these are so you can build Guided Fault tests...the 9100 is quite a powerful machine!

The 9100A manuals, while rather thick, have many surprises buried in them.

There are 9100A training courses in the files, you may want to review them:

Fluke/PDFs/Training and Troublshooting/9100A Training (spll chck brokn)

John :-#)#

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-----Original Message----- From: techtoolslist-bounces@flippers.com [mailto:techtoolslist-bounces@flippers.com] On Behalf Of Andre Huijts Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 1:44 PM To: Technical Tools Mail List Subject: [Techtoolslist] Directory success !!! (for HDR that is…)

Thanks to Martin's instruction file about setting up RS-232 comms between a PC and the 9100 AND one of his e-mails about the backup utility I succeeded in getting a directory from the HD in the 9100.....

I remembered that I still had one of those blue "Laplink" cables, very nice null-modem cable with on one end a sub-9 D and on the other both a sub-9 and a sub-25 (?) So that fitted perfectly. I used my ancient Toshiba T1910 that I recently dug-out to set-up my Needham EMP-10 EPROM programmer. I searched a bit for a DOS terminal program and I found CONEX75.

I was typing messages from and to the 9100 right away ! :)

Following the instructions about the Backup utility (which turned out to be already installed) and using the "capture to file" option I succeeded in getting a complete directory.

I could have used my USB to RS-232 cable and the Mac just as well of course but this was only to see if I got it to work at all...

Reading further in the PDF I saw that it is not possible to just get a directory from a floppy. (The only directory you can get from a floppy is from a backup set, using the last disk of the set)

Moved the file using "sneaker net" to the Mac and now I am going to bore you guys with the entire directory ! :)

If there is anything wrong (that I should remove) or interesting down here....please let me know :)

Contents of directory /HDR/ Filename Size Write Protected Date Time ====================== ========= =============== =============== Info 47 Protected 09/11/26 21:25 MEVALID 0 Protected 93/10/19 17:12 NDISKS 2 Protected 91/07/24 14:48 TEXT$BACKUP.DIR 0 09/12/09 22:54 ZYSETIOMOD 944 Protected 90/07/19 14:29 ZYSETKYSEQ 1120 Protected 90/07/19 14:29 ZYSETMISC 116 Protected 90/07/19 14:29 ZYSETPOD 628 Protected 90/07/19 14:29 ZYSETRAMRO 24 Protected 90/07/19 14:29 ...

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