[spock]

BP II interact 4, TNC 150

My old desktop died this morning, had all my transfer software on it. I set up my laptop and I already had a usb/serial connector on standby. Installed fine, I am uploading to the 150, but when it finishes uploading I get the "wrong program data" alarm. I can hit "exit" then "no enter" and when I look at the program that I just transferred, it is all there, every single character.

I could just keep doing that, but I would rather do it right, like I used to. I am using a new software, "predator dnc". I used to have to put a "13" at program head, and a "13" at the end of the last line. I have tried that and tried switching the last "13" for a "3" on the last line by itself. Still same alarm, still get all my program. Any help is appreciated.

[gus]

Not uncommon. The program is probably putting a spurious character at the end of the program. Should be a setting for it. Unfortunately I don't know what the right thing is.....

[HuFlungDung]

How does your new software send control characters to the machine? The numbers would most likely be associated with ASCII values and there are only probably a half dozen that get any usage. Check here: http://www.asciitable.com/

Perhaps try a simple program download to your PC and see if you can catch the correct characters that way. I suspect it is looking for a particular termination character, but the way that this is encoded into the DNC software could vary from program to program. For example, some programs use @003, others use ~003 to represent ASCII 003.