Keven Laskowski on the facebook group reported some issues with LaddieAlpha.
First, he was confused that .BA file were showing up with a .BA extension on his hard drive, but DB extension in TS-DOS. LaddieAlpha automatically maps untokenized BASIC text files to the appropriate .D* extension, to avoid corrupting the laptop filesystem. But then the question arose, so how do you run .DB files? To run an ASCII formatted BASIC program you can first load the DB file into the laptop filesystem, and then you can LOAD"BLAH.DB" from the BASIC prompt. This works. But that can be problematic for large BASIC programs, since then you need enough free RAM to hold the untokenized and tokenized program to be able to run it. If you turn DOS-ON in TS-DOS, you can load it directly LOAD"0:FILE.DB" And it will load it as a BASIC program, and you can then SAVE, and/or RUN it. Or one step, you can RUN"0:FILE.DB" But it turns out Kevin tried it and it doesn't work! I did some testing and found it's an issue of extensions. TS-DOS can inload or save a file with D*, B*, C* extensions properly. But in my testing I found the BASIC "DOS" LOAD"0: command (at least) is limited to text files with DO extensions only. So I changed LaddieAlpha to map misnamed BA files to DO instead of DB. http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=LaddieCon -- John.
