Husky Hunter User manual

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HUNTER
OPERATIONSMANUAL
REVISION:VER.V09F SEPTIOO!ER198'1

PREFACE
The HUNTERmicrocomputer is a self contained and
truly portable system. Its built-in operating system
contains an accurate emulation of the world-standard
CP/Moperating system and virtual floppy disk drive,
implemented in RAMmemory. Other built-in features
include a powerful BASICinterpreter, a terminal
emulation package, a flexible text editor with full-
screen facilities based on the popular Wordstar and a
comprehensive range of communications protocols.
User memoryis shared between work areas, program and
data files.
CP/Mis a registered trademark of Digital Research Inc.
Wordstar is a trademark of MicroPro International Corp.

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           

   
            
       
    
          
         
         


        
       
           
 
          
     
            
     
i)        
           
           

           
           
     
             

           
11)    
VER. V09F PAGE 1

COMMUNICATIONPARAMETERS
There has been an addition to the communications parameters in order
to provide a timeout option on both receive and transmit
communications. These values can be set from 10 seconds to 1 minute
in intervals of 10 sees, Unlike the protocol timeouts, they can be
disabled by selecting 'no' in the menu.
The receive timeout is activated when the HUNTERrequests an input
from the port. If an input is not received within the specified
time, then a communications error 181 is given. The user may elect
to try again by pressing 'X' where upon the HUNTERwill wait for an
input again for the selected time and timeout again if nothing is
received,
The transmit timeout is activated when the HUNTERtries to transmit
but is prevented from doing so by the various handshake lines. If
after the specified time the HUNTERis still not able to transmit,
then a communications error '9' will occur. By pressing 'X' the
HUNTERcan be made to re-attempt the transmission.
Both transmit and receive timeouts can be trapped by use of the BASIC
'on comms goto' statement and the error number returned in location
COMERR.
VER.V09F PAGE3

INTRODUCTIONTOHUNTER 1
HUNTEROPERATION 2
FILEMANAGER 3
BASICPROGRAMMING 4
BASICFUNCTIONS 5
COMMUNICATIONS 6
EDITOR 7
MAINTENANCEAND 8
ACCESSORIES
APPENDIX 9
INDEX 10

CONTENTS
PARTl INTRODUCTIONTOHUNTER
Welcome to Hunter
Usingthe manual
Page formats
PART2 HUNTEROPERATION
Switching on
Filemanager display
Huntersystemfiles
Keyboard
Screen
Virtual screen
Communication
Batteries
Panic
PART3 FILEMANAGER
Demos - Filemanager
Program execution
Filestructure and memory organisation
Filemanager commands
CP/M Interface
Loading files
Memory maps
Auto run
PART4 BASICPROGRAMMING
Introduction
Syntax
Variables
Editor
Keyboard
Memory allocation
Hunter graphics
Machine code calls
Programming techniques
Power warning
Off-line program storage
Auto power feature
Filehandling
Errorsand warnings
PART5 BASICFUNCTIONS
Index to Basicfunctions
Basicfunctions

PART6
Introduction
Applications
COMMUNICATIONS
Hardware characteristics
Communication port sottware
Asynchronous character handling
Asynchronous protocols
Synchronous protocols
Terminal emulation
PART7 EDITOR
Introduction
Initiating the Editor
Editor Command
Arrows
Caps Lock and Tab
Character Insert
Delete
Exit
FileStart and End
Find
Line Delete
LineStart and End
Page Scroll
Save
Word Skip
PART8 MAINTENANCEANDACCESSORIES
Replacing Hunte(s firmware
Case sealing
Pessurerelief
Humidity indicator
Bar Codes and Light Pens
Battery Charger

PART9 APPENDIX
Hunter specification
ASCIIcharacter set
HEXto Decimal conversion
NSCBOOMachine code
Demonstration programs
Keyboard memory map
Memory locations
Port allocations
Single bit input port
RS-232connector
HEXdata format
ASCIIto EBCDICconversion
Fouroctave sound range
Configuring Typical CP/M Programs
PART10
Alpha index
Index to figures
Index to tables
INDEX

INTRODUCTIONTOHUNTER
CONTENTS
1. 1 WELCOMETOHUNTER
1•2 USINGTHEMANUAL
1. 3 PAGEFORMATS

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 Fig 1. 1  
 
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         
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            
       
          
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 
  
  

 
  
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    
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       1  11  1  
        
    
 
          
 
        
        
       
 
         
         
        
        
     
       
          
        
 
     
      
         
         
        
   
     

      
        
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
       

        
  
        
        
  
          
          
        
  
    
          
   
  
      
      
  
      
   
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IllTRODUCTIONTOHllliTER SECTION1.3
PAGEFORMATS
1, 3 Each page in this manual is laid out. on a standard format.
VER.V09F
Sections are identified in the left margir, by section number·s
e.g. 1,3, o,eaning Part 1, section 3.
The top of each page contains the part name to the left and the
first section number of the page to the right. At the foot
appears HUNTER'soperating system revision number (to which this
manual refers) to the left and the page number to the right,
The page number is in two parts. The first number refers to the
part of the manual being studied, the second to the page number
referenced from the start of each part.
PAGE1 - 5

HUNTEROPERATION
CONTENTS
2. 1 SWITCHINGON
2.2 FILE MANAGERDISPLAY
2.3 HUNTERSYSTEMFILES
2.4 KEYBOARD
2.5 SCREEN
2.6 VIRTUALSCREEN
2.7 COMMUNICATION
2.8 BATIERIES
2.9 PANIC!
2, 10 BATIERYLIFE

IIDNTEROPERATION
Fig 2. 1 HUH'IBRLAYOUT
Screen
Keyboard Battery plug
VER.V09F
SECTION 2.1
LEMO connector
RS232/V24 port
(25pin D connector)
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