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stepleton:
With a USB serial adaptor plugged into your Mac, you can connect to one of your Lisa's serial ports and use the Transfer program in the Workshop to establish a serial link between the two computers. With a serial port program on the Mac (about which I can't really make many recommendations --- these options might work), you can paste or import the text over the link while the Transfer program on the Lisa "records" it to a file.

It is probably easier to do all of this in simulation; I've got the impression (without having tried it) that modern versions of LisaEm can compile software in the Workshop, which was not always the case.

Beyond that, I will sit this one out but watch with interest, until and unless you find a different AI. Absolutely no truck with X, its sibling companies, or its owner for me.

AlexTheCat123:
Yeah, the Transfer program is probably your best bet here (press T at the Workshop main menu to access it). Just keep in mind that the Lisa has no idea what an LF is, so if your file has any linefeeds in it, then you'll need to remove them and replace them with CR's or else the Lisa will put a bunch of "unknown character" characters into your file. Also, in my experience, you start getting data corruption at anything above about 1200 baud, so don't go any higher than that. It's really solid at 1200 baud and below though; I've used it to transfer about 12MB of LOS source files to the Workshop over the past month with no data errors whatsoever!


There's another Workshop data transfer option called MacCom (run it by choosing R{un}MacCom), but I haven't had super great luck with it. It's supposed to allow you to transfer files from Mac-formatted disks over to the Lisa, so you should theoretically be able to use ImportFL in Mini vMac to copy a bunch of text files over to an MFS-formatted floppy and then stick that into your Lisa. But I've never been able to get it to work right. Whenever I try to copy a file, it always starts copying a bit after the beginning of the file and stops copying after it has run past the end of the file, so the resulting file on the Lisa has a block of text missing at the beginning and an extra block from another random file on the disk appended onto the end. MacCom is probably more trouble than it's worth for a single file anyway (it would come more in handy for batch transfers, if I were able to get it to work), so I'd probably advise you to try Transfer unless you just want to play around with MacCom for fun!

TorZidan:
Feature request:
Write a tool for Windows, Linux, etc, that can add a file (e.g. a text file in this case) to a "profile.image" file.
Then you can use Alex's ESProFile to mount that profile.image on a real Lisa, and the file will be there.

Similarly, the tool should be able to extract files from a "profile.image" file.

Or do the above for floppy disk dc42 image files, and mount them on the Lisa using a FloppyEmu (I assume "Workshop" can access files on the floppy drive, but I don't know).

Hint: lisafsh-tool can "see" such files on dc42 floppy image files:
https://lisalist2.com/index.php?topic=154.0
I wonder if the Profile uses the same catalog structure as on floppies.

More hints: you should be able to use the LisaEm emulator, not a real Lisa, to compile your Pascal code. It can do all the above (read floppy and profile image files, has some serial port integration, not sure if/how it works).

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