Rather than three commands, TEENY.CO has five commands. The TEENY.CO guide
line identifies the command character for each of the five commands. See
the snippet below which is from the TEENY documentation.
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Guide/Prompt
Teeny issues a two-line guide/prompt: the upper line is the guide, the
lower line is the prompt. These two lines are illustrated below
exactly as they appear on the 40-column screen of the laptop.
The guide line is only a visual aid. It identifies column positions of
fields in the prompt line, and it has a notation (C=KLSQ) regarding
arguments of the command field. The prompt line has two fields that
are separated. The command field [C] is column 3. Column 4 is merely
a separator [ ] between fields. The file name field [FFFFFF.XX] spans
from column 5 to column 13.
Teeny provides a blinking cursor (illustrated by _ below) on the prompt
line at column 3, which is the command field. Use of the command field
is mandatory -- you must type a command. You do not have to use the
rest of the prompt line -- its use is optional.
1111111111222222222233333333334
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890
________________________________________
Guide |> C FFFFFF.XX (C=KLSQ) |
Prompt |> _ |
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Mike mentioned three of the five commands: Kill (K), Load (L), and Save (S).
The other two commands are: query (=), and Quit (Q).
The query command (=) provides one of two error responses based on its
failure or its success at finding the filename present within the diskette
mounted on the disk drive (e.g., Tandy Potable Disk Drive 2), or within the
file repository directory if a PC-based emulator of a disk drive (e.g.,
DESKLINK.COM) is used. The two possible error responses are listed below.
"FF Err" results if TEENY.CO Fails to Find the filename that the query
seeks.
"SN Err" results if TEENY.CO finds a file by the Specific Name that the
query seeks.
The Quit command (Q) simply ends operation of TEENY.CO - whereupon the main
menu of the laptop reappears.
Mike is mistaken in regard to running file TEENY.EXE on a PC with a Windows
XP operating system. There is no problem running it under Windows XP. The
only difficulty I can imagine is if it's merely invoked by a simple mouse
click. In that simplistic situation you have no means to supply any
arguments - consequently TEENY.EXE resorts to using the default arguments,
which might be inappropriate. An example is where the nul-modem cable is
connected to a PC COM port other than COM port #1 -- the default is COM port
#1. So if one of more arguments must be included when TEENY.EXE is invoked,
then command line operation of the PC must be used where the command TEENY
is typed along with whatever command arguments are appropriate to the
situation (e.g., TEENY /2 for operation via COM port #2.
Keeper of the Primordial Bit (mother of all bits), -= Ron Wiesen =-
_____
From: M100 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike
Stein
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 06:20
To: Model 100 Discussion
Subject: Re: [M100] Update on my M100 and REX
Not much of a file manager; it only has three functions: remote Load, Save
and Kill.
And AFAIK there is only one version for all three Model Ts (M100, T102 and
T200).
But yes, the 'normal' way to load it is via TEENY.EXE which will only run on
a PC running DOS or a version of windows prior to XP AFAIK.
m
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Whitaker <mailto:[email protected]>
To: Model <mailto:[email protected]> 100 Discussion
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [M100] Update on my M100 and REX
>From what I remember Teeny is a file manager, of just a loader. It is
loaded onto your Model 100 using the DOS loader from your PC. The DOS loader
is often called teeny.exe and will only load properly if you follow the
connection instructions properly.
It is small and easy to use and there are different versions, one for each
of the Model-T clones.
Frederick Whitaker
Sent from my iPhone
On May 27, 2015, at 5:22 PM, "Kurt McCullum" <[email protected]> wrote:
James,
I've never used teeny. From what I understand it's a DOS program that must
have com1-4 to load a client onto the M100. But other than that I don't know
much about it. a TPDD client like TS-DOS allows you to connect directly to
your drive. Getting one loaded is not always easy. Obviously REX would be
the easiest route. I use the Sardine ROM to load a client since it has that
function built in. Sorry I can't be of more help with Teeny.
Kurt
On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 11:46 AM, James Zeun <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi buddy
I was wondering what you would like me to do next, setup Teeny? From the
sounds of it, the way I've been using my M100 thus far, using Telecom. Is
only skimming the surface of what I can do with the machine. So I should
probably get remote TPDD? setup on my machine.
James
On 26 May 2015 at 14:34, James Zeun <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't think you ever ran any utilities to rebuild your REX did you?
Nope, you might have to talk me through that, but i'm more then willing to
give it a shot!
Never used TS-DOS, TPDD? Tandy Portable Disk Drive? I actually have one and
i have a cable for it, I just dont know if it works as I dont have any
software for it and have never used one before. A friend just donated it to
me.
At present I'm using a null modem cable, linked to a Linux box running
minicom. It's been the only fool proof way of getting data off and on the
machine so far. Hyper terminal was a nightmare! I keep seeing people mention
Teeny and I've been meaning to look in to it. See my original plan was to
get the REX, get lots of space for programs and then download them and start
learning out to use them. But I've sort of got hung up on the REX part haha
Cheers
James
On 26 May 2015 at 13:15, Stephen Adolph <[email protected]> wrote:
I could send you that software if you wanted to try it.
You would need a working TPDD device, like laddiealpha running on a PC, plus
a serial cable. I'm guessing you have the serial cable sorted out but have
you ever run TS-DOS or Teeny on the M100, and connected to a "remote TPDD"
on your PC?
Steve
