I did some more testing and discovered that John is absolutely correct. Previously when I had tried to load a .BA which was really a .DO it made it about 3-4 line in and then stopped. This led me to believe it was an issue I have seen on other computer; when loading an ASCII file over serial the computer will tokenize the line when the CR is encountered. Just like it had been typed in on the keyboard. For these systems you have to add a 2 second or so delay after each line to allow for tokenization.
TSDOS does its own thing, like John says, and really makes a mess of it. Jeff Birt From: M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> On Behalf Of John R. Hogerhuis Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2023 7:40 PM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] - Backpack A side note but the reason files misnamed as BA cause a problem is that tsdos will load them into the BASIC program region verbatim and treat the ASCII bytes as parts of binary formatted line numbers and tokens among other problems, ultimately causing a corrupted RAM file system. It was the convention on the old Club100 library to name them this way but it's now a bad practice. -- John. On Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 5:30 PM <bir...@soigeneris.com <mailto:bir...@soigeneris.com> > wrote: Yes, someone already wrote such a program and shared it. If you just got a Backpack Drive Plus it is already on the SD card. You can also download it from: https://github.com/Jeff-Birt/Backpack/tree/main/User_Programs
