HP 4195A, LIF to DOS conversion util ??

Do the programs fail with no warning, or get so far and fail, or what? Do you know that your floppy drive is good -- can it read FAT (DOS format) disks without errors?

HP/UX apparently has utilities to deal with LIF. For instance

There is a set of Linux utilities that says it will deal with LIF disks; see

If you don't have a Linux box, you might be able to use Knoppix (a bootable Linux CD) to temporarily turn your PC into a Linux system - it doesn't write to your hard drive. You would need to boot Knoppix, download and build the LIF utilities (if not already installed in Knoppix), use the utilities to copy data from the LIF floppy to the RAM disk that Knoppix sets up, then copy the files from the RAM disk to a normal FAT floppy, or USB flash drive, or another computer, or whatever.

You might also ask in one of the comp.sys.hp.* groups for advice.

Matt Roberds

This should do the conversion if your computer can read that size disk:

Wes

That 4195A floppy is a pain in the fundament. Use GPIB. Or, get one of those nifty GPIB to Ethernet converto boxes National Instruments sells. You can find them on EBay sometimes. National Instruments has this nifty suite of drivers and programs that allows you to talk to GPIB via the command line. Getting data dumps is as easy as writing a batch file.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Homer.Simpson" Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 5:09 AM Subject: HP 4195A, LIF to DOS conversion util ??

Hello Homer,

Which program have you tried?

Have you tried in pure DOS-mode as required? Even EMM386 can be a problem.

Best regards, Helmut