RE: A little more information

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

Ha!  Looks like we have an existence proof that what I want to do is 
possible.   Thank you David Talbot.  There are four Mark IVs out there in 
the hands of people that have more software ability than I.  I hope one of 
you will volunteer to make this test.  I stand by to help by making the 
appropriate cable.

If this fails, because you are all to busy taking Nobel prize winning data, 
then I can possibly try it here with the right software support.

Note that once this has been demonstrated to work, then there is still the 
busy work of straightening out the bytes, adding the fits header and all 
that.   But Rob has already done this, so it cannot be too bad to add.

Tom Droege

At 10:46 AM 8/15/01 +0100, you wrote:


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Albertson [mailto:chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com]
>
><snip>
>
>I am thinking somthing like this would read in a 16MB block and store
>it to a file:
>
>         dd if=/dev/lp0 of=myimage.raw bs=16M
>
>I think "dd" has been ported to DOS.  To test I'd need a source of
>parallel data.  Maybe I could use two computers but "dd" should
>work.
>
>----- End Original Message
>
>Hi All
>Yes. I dont remeber the exact command as it is a couple of years since I
>last needed it, but I have in the past used (in DOS) a command very similar
>to that Chris suggests to read upto 32MB of data from a malfunctioning
>portable gamma spectrometer. I seem to remember that whatever I used sat and
>waited for the data stram to start then read it in one go when it appeared.
>In this case the transfer itself was initiated by giving a command on the
>spectrometer system once the PC was waiting for data.
>Regards
>David