This would not solve the underlying problem(s).
A. New users of the M100 always get bitten in the butt by this BA/DO file issue. B. Once you learn it is a problem you still have the manual process of making sure the sure the extension of the file is correct. Loading a .DO as a .DO into RAM. Opening this .DO into BASIC and saving it as a .BA to tokenize it. C. If it is a large program, you may not have enough RAM to hold the .DO and .BA versions at once. Someone on the Discord server wrote a program that will pull a .DO from the Backpack one line at a time, tokenize it and save it to RAM. This is still a manual process. D. If you have a number of programs you want to tokenize this manual process takes a lot of time. The offline tokenizing programs would make short work of it though IIF one knows about the DO/BA issue and knows that these programs exist. Jeff Birt From: M100 <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Francois Gurin Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2021 6:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [M100] Recompile multiple BA files On Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 7:20 PM John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: For example, what LaddieAlpha does is it looks at the file and determines if it is formatted as plain text or tokenized basic, and when, say TS-DOS requests the directory it presents the filename with corrected extension on the fly. That's one way to handle it. Firmware update for the Backpack to do the same? ;) --fg
