That's correct; as a matter of fact you don't even need to specify the extension: e.g. LOAD"XYZ SAVE"XYZ ----- Original Message ----- From: Bryan Ard To: Model 100 Discussion Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 8:24 PM Subject: Re: [M100] Writing to a .ba file
If you have a .do file and you load it from basic, if you save it, it will save as a .ba file. Or am I completely not remembering how this works? On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Ron Lauzon <[email protected]> wrote: Ya, that's what I want to do. The .ba I want to write was originally read from the same box. So I know it's a valid .ba file. I just don't know how "special" they are (sort of like the restrictions on the .co files). On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:30 PM, MikeS <[email protected]> wrote: > Assuming that a .BA file is really what you want and depending on the details of your project maybe you could write a .DO file and then convert it, perhaps using the keyboard buffer? > > m > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Lauzon" <[email protected]> > To: "Model 100 Discussion" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 5:25 PM > Subject: Re: [M100] Writing to a .ba file > > >> That's what I figured. Oh, well. One more limit as to what project can do. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Ken Pettit <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Ron, >>> >>> TS-DOS and Teeny can do it because they are assembly programs, not BASIC >>> programs. From BASIC, you can only open .DO (ASCII Text) files. >>> >>> Ken >>> >>> On 4/6/17 1:09 PM, Ron Lauzon wrote: >>>> >>>> Can anyone point me to information about how to open a .ba file for >>>> writing? >>>> >>>> My latest project is rather successful, but when I try to >>>> >>>> open "file.ba" for output as #1 >>>> >>>> I get an error. Based on the research I've done so far, writing to a >>>> .ba file is not something that they want you to do, but I know it can >>>> be done (because TS-DOS and Teeny can do it). >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ron Lauzon - rlauzon at acm dot org >> Homepage: http://webpages.charter.net/rlauzon/ >> Weblog: http://ronsapartment.blogspot.com/ >> >> DNRC: Lord of All Things That Are Fattening >> >> "To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in >> audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some >> sort of job." - Ann Coulter >> >> Microsoft Free since July 06, 2001 >> Running Ubuntu 16.04 -- Ron Lauzon - rlauzon at acm dot org Homepage: http://webpages.charter.net/rlauzon/ Weblog: http://ronsapartment.blogspot.com/ DNRC: Lord of All Things That Are Fattening "To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job." - Ann Coulter Microsoft Free since July 06, 2001 Running Ubuntu 16.04
