Thanks guys. I can make copies and backups easily enough with my REX, I was just wondering if there was a way in BASIC. I'm good.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 7:44 PM Tom Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Or if you have a Rex, you can just back up that bank periodically. > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:23 PM John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> " if I want to save a back-up of a program before I make changes can I >> only do it as a .DO" >> >> Natively, yes. >> >> You can rename the program, but there is no way to copy it without >> loading some special program to do it, or save/load from external. >> >> So to duplicate a file with a stock machine you'd need to save as a DO, >> LOAD" it, then save it as a new file name. >> >> Which means you have to have enough space for the original, the tokenized >> program + ASCII format. Then you can delete the ASCII file and have just >> the two tokenized copies. >> >> If you simply need to take backups of RAM on occasion and you have a >> serial cable and a PC you can consider my utility TBACK.EXE . It can >> backup/restored the full RAM in about 9 seconds >> >> >> -- John. >> >>> -- > Tom Wilson > [email protected] > (619)940-6311 > K6ABZ >
