No it's certainly not a bug in laddiealpha. The file transferred to m100 
correctly. It was just that LOAD"A-DUEL.DB" returned a no file found?

Is this normal, that BASIC's picky about the second letter of the extension?

Willard
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-------- Original message --------
From "John R. Hogerhuis" <[email protected]> 
Date: 02/19/2017  2:20 PM  (GMT-07:00) 
To Model 100 Discussion <[email protected]> 
Subject Re: [M100] Auto-mangled file extension? 
 
You effectively loaded it as a-duel.db. Once transferred I guess you're 
accessing the file from BASIC. From basic we're you opening it as a-duel.db or 
a-duel.do?

Then you renamed it from tsdos. Maybe tsdos sees .db and .do as the same file. 
Or maybe it's a bug in laddiecon. 

-- John 


On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 1:03 PM Willard Goosey <[email protected]> wrote:
So I had my fist experience with LaddieAlpha's automatic file extension 
mangling, and I'm a little confused.

So it started with (on the linux side) file a-duel.ba which was ascii source. 
Such sloppiness is a good way to visit Cold Start City, so Laddie presented it 
as a-duel.db to tsdos, which happily saved it in m100 RAM as such.... So far so 
good.

The trouble started when BASIC returned NM error, couldn't find file... OK I 
tried to use tsdos to rename it to a-duel.do but tsdos claimed file already 
exists. Deleted file, reloaded it as a-duel.do and everything works.

So, am I missing something here, or is that just how it is?

Willard

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