Ha! I just saw your reply!

Thanks all the same buddy!

On 30 Aug 2016 8:33 p.m., "James Zeun" <[email protected]> wrote:

> John, as the title of my email suggests. was asking about Kurt's Mcomm
> android app.
>
> On 30 Aug 2016 7:52 p.m., "John R. Hogerhuis" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:20 AM, James Zeun <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys
>>>
>>> Might sound silly, but could someone walk me through using this app.
>>> I've got the TS-dos rom installed via Rex. But it says disk isn't ready,
>>> when I try to access disk drive.
>>>
>> There's no virtual TPDD drive in CloudT.
>>
>> You can launch TS-DOS but at this point pretty much TS-DOS is only useful
>> for RAM file management since it's not connected to any kind of disk drive.
>> So you can use TS-DOS to rename and kill RAM files.
>>
>> I may eventually add a TPDD emulation that will back to Google Drive
>> and/or browser local storage.
>>
>> In the meantime, the way to get your files into and out of CloudT is the
>> "fake cassette"
>>
>> So if you're in TEXT and want to save a text file, just save it to
>> cassette.
>>
>> Hit LABEL to see your options
>> Hit F3 which means "Save"
>> Type CAS:FNAME
>> where FNAME is the filename you want to Save-As
>>
>> Scroll CloudT to bottom of screen, you should see your cassette file pop
>> up there.
>> From the list you can download to local which should let you "share" the
>> file with Google drive (assuming you have that App installed).
>> Alternatively, if you are logged into Google Drive (there's a button
>> right under the main window for that), once your file pops up in the fake
>> cassette list, you can click the cloud upload button and that will save
>> directly to your Google Drive.
>>
>>
>> If you're in BASIC and you want to save a file, you type
>>
>> CSAVE "FNAME"
>> where FNAME is the name you want to save the BA file as.
>>
>> To load files into CloudT, you have a few options:
>>
>> a) Add URL
>> If you are adding a file from Club100's file archive, it should work.
>> b) Add Plain Text
>> If you paste text into the Add Plain Text window and click the button it
>> should appear in your cassette files.
>> c) Choose File
>> This should let you pick a file from your local machine. On Android, I
>> think it should let you pick from Google Drive by launching the Google
>> Drive app. Not sure about that. It's system dependent
>> (Android/iOS/OSX/Windows/Linux) what Choose File does.
>> d) Use Google Drive file picker to stage a file. This will pop up the
>> Google Drive web interface from which you can select a file.
>>
>> Whichever method you choose, the file if successfully processed will
>> appear at the bottom of the page (at present, at least, you will need to
>> scroll down to view the list).
>>
>> Once it is in the list, you can use CLOAD to load the file into the Model
>> 100 file system just as if the file were on cassette. The file at the top
>> of the list will be the next one to load when you type CLOAD.
>>
>> Most applications can pull files from cassette. If you're not typing
>> CSAVE/CLOAD from the prompt you generally need to prefix the filename with
>> CAS:
>>
>>
>> Let me know if any of that doesn't make sense. Probably the next big
>> thing I'll do on CloudT is to add HTML5 / Angular Material fanciness. And
>> then, documentation. At this point the UI is rough, undocumented but
>> functional.
>>
>> -- John.
>>
>

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