[Coco] Coco BASIC files

[John E. Malmberg]

arikboke at yahoo.com wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Some please explain to me why BASIC comes in 'BASIC binary" and 'BASIC ascii'. 
> Are not BASIC sources supposed to be .TXT files?  Also, when placed onto
> virtual diskettes via IMGTOOL in MESS, often times I am unable to access said
> files (neither ASCII nor binary).  I keep getting "FM? ERROR ..." or some
> variants.  Have they become corrupt?

http://encompasserve.org/~malmberg/coco/cocodisk_dos.zip

Does not work on all systems.

On the systems it does work on, it only works on pre-formated COCO floppies.

Does not work on disk images.

On the system it works on, it will allow copying in ASCII mode or Binary 
mode, and setting the attributes of the file on the floppy.

No warrantee, as-is.

I am still fighting bugs in accessing some floppies due to timing bugs. 
  On the system I am having the problem on, John Collyer's modified 
Retrieve.exe is having what appear to be similar problems.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net
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