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Re: "I had an idea the other day: I sometimes have to transfer..."
Thanks all for commenting. No this is not for doing things on my work computers, but to help when being at customers. Of course we would discuss with the IT people before doing this. We're not THAT stupid.. I made the test rig to just pass-through commands, so I will be able to do anything a typist can do. Just have to add a possibility to send Ctrl / Alt / Shift / System and F keys. But that is very doable. We just have some customers where the IT guys are not able to lift restrictions themselves, but are okay with temporarily using workarounds, especially when they are present to witness the thing. All customer want solutions in the end, despite all the rules....
Mar 26 · 9 months ago
You'll struggle with some characters, like NULs, CR without LF (and vice versa), SUB (because it's used for EOF), ESC probably, etc...
I played with type-in MS-DOS programs a while back for the Atari Portfolio and posted my results in the comment section of the blog post that gave me the idea. The blog author wrote another post summarising my comments, which is still online if that's something that sounds useful?
— Decade old blog post about the Atari Portfolio experimental stuff (I'm DH).
I had an idea the other day: I sometimes have to transfer files to heavily closed off Windows PCs (Corporate IT and whatnot) and that is a PITA. Why not connect a Arduino Pro micro to it that presents itself as a HID Keyboard, and then feed the arduino from my laptop with the data over serial. The arduino can open a CMD box, do a "copy con" and then type the extents of the file, do a Ctrl-Z, and there you are. Also sending a binary as base64 and then using the Windows built-in base64 decoder...