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.
>>
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