YES! Worked!!! Thanks!!! Curtis
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 2:59 PM Jim Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > So far I've only figured out how to use TS-DOS and it works fine. I can > > access the DRIVE and LOAD the files. > > A .DO file works great. A .BA file will transfer but never run. > > I understood from previous conversations that what I should do is rename > > the .BA files to .DO files. But that doesn't work. I can't rename the > > files to .BA. > > So, there are a couple of things here. Transferring a .BA file that is a > plain ASCII (ie. readable text) BASIC program will not work, and will end > up causing you filesystem corruption in your Model T. So, the first thing > you need to do is determine whether the .BA file you want to transfer is in > fact plain ASCII text or is a tokenized basic program. > > Have a look at the .BA file on your computer. I think you mentioned you > were running Linux, so try looking at it in a text editor, or with 'more' > or 'cat' or whatever utility you want. If you see a plain text BASIC > program with line numbers and intelligible statements, it's plain ASCII > text. If you see a bunch of 'garbage' with some text mixed in, but no line > numbers or PRINT statements etc, the file is what is called 'tokenized > BASIC' and should be transferrable as-is. > > If the file is plain readable ASCII, then you need to rename it. I think > from what you described in a previous message that you are trying to rename > it to a .DO file by hitting F1 in TS-DOS and then typing FILE.DO as the > local name. As I mentioned in a previous message, THIS WILL NOT WORK. You > can only rename the first part of a filename when using Load or Save in > TS-DOS. It will always preserve the two-character extension and will flag > the file as that type in the filesystem. > > What you need to do is to rename the file in the folder on your computer, > ie 'mv PROG.BA PROG.DO', and then launch your TPDD emulator and use > TS-DOS to load the PROG.DO into your Model T. Once you see the .DO file on > your Model T, you can go into BASIC and type LOAD "PROG.DO" and it will > load and tokenize it for you. (If the program is long, it might take a > minute or so.) Once it's done loading you can type SAVE "PROG.BA" and it > will save the tokenized version into the RAM filesystem. You can then > remove PROG.DO since you don't need it anymore. > > If you want to save this hassle in the future, you can then fire up TS-DOS > again and use F1 to save the tokenized PROG.BA back to your TPDD emulator > in your computer. > > > You can also convert plain-text BASIC program listings into tokenized .BA > files using either the Virtual T or Cloud T emulators, which I've done and > is a bit faster than loading them in and out of your real machine, but that > is probably a topic for a later time. :) Play around with this and get > more comfortable with it first. > > > > > > > > jim > >
