[Coco] Loading ASCII BASIC over serial?

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
> Ok I used the GUI to create a blank disk (which wasn't easy, typing in a name in the box just ignored me. I had to click the ... button and type in a name there).
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> Now I do
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> dw disk dos add 0 ~/source/prog.txt
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> it tells me that it can't figure it out and the path isn't absolute. ok.
>
> dw disk dos add /home/fozztexx/source/prog.txt
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>    "Image is too small to contain a FAT"
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> Well my BASIC txt file isn't a disk image so why *would* it contain a FAT?

A blank disk needs to be formatted.  Use dw disk dos format or DSKINI
on the CoCo before trying to add content.


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> On Sep 30, 2013, at 9:54 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
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>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
>>> How can I load a BASIC program saved as an ASCII file on another over the serial port into Extended BASIC? I did get DriveWire and NitrOS9 working last night, but couldn't figure out how to get back into Extended BASIC. And I have no idea how to copy a single file over from the PC with DriveWire either.
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>> The 'dw' command will allow you to copy a single file from PC to CoCo.
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>> General dw command info is here:
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>> https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/drivewireserver/index.php?title=Using_DriveWire#The_.27dw.27_command
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>> Commands specific to your task are here:
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>> https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/drivewireserver/index.php?title=DriveWire_Specification#dw_disk_dos
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