[Coco] CLOAD without ?IO ERROR

[Robert Gault]

Let's not be be unfair about this. :)
 >a very limited "official" interface to them, that couldn't  show
 > filenames
There is a Basic command that does exactly that, SKIPF"X". If X is a 
name never used for a file, SKIPF will read the entire tape displaying 
all the file names found.

Further, the tape system was robust if the tapes were recorded at 
correct volume on a good unit.

KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
> In my earliest Coco days I had a short TapeDir program, probably typed in  
> from The Rainbow, that would run thru a cassette and print onscreen the name of  
> each file it encountered.  Very handy for finding the most recent Dungeons  
> of Daggorath save, whose name you had forgotten.
>  
> And another program for reading in error-buggy files.
>  
> The irony was that all these programs did was call ROM BASIC  routines.  
> Tandy had all the parts for a really decent tape file system in  the ROM, but gave 
> us a very limited "official" interface to them, that couldn't  show 
> filenames, tolerate errors, etc.
> --Mike K.
>  
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