[Coco] Loading ASCII BASIC over serial?

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Wed Oct 2 10:35:57 EDT 2013


That is reasonable and I will add the ability to specify an alternate
destination name in a future version.

In the meantime, I am concerned that you are doing things correctly
and it isn't working.  A bug report would be very helpful.


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
> I really don't want to rename the original file, it's part of a git repo. There should be a way to let me specify the name that it will use on the disk.
>
> On Oct 1, 2013, at 9:55 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>
>> DW just uses the file name of the source, so you can rename it there but
>> not as part of the add command.  So long as its a valid DECB file name it
>> should be OK.
>>
>> Its been a long time since I worked on those routines, but I think you are
>> doing things correctly.
>> Could you send a bug report from the help menu after trying the commands
>> you are using? It would help me see what's happening.
>> On Oct 2, 2013 12:13 AM, "Chris Osborn" <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps, but I can't seem to tell DW to name it that when it puts it on
>>> the disk.
>>>
>>> On Oct 1, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Wayne Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is it possible that the filename needs to be prog.bas instead of
>>> prog.txt?
>>>>
>>>> Wayne
>>>> On Oct 2, 2013 12:01 AM, "Chris Osborn" <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 1, 2013, at 8:14 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> A blank disk needs to be formatted.  Use dw disk dos format or DSKINI
>>>>>> on the CoCo before trying to add content.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok so I got it formatted, but now when I try to copy the file onto the
>>>>> disk it tells me Invalid filename. I try to add another argument after
>>> the
>>>>> file path to give it a name and I get Syntax error.
>>>>>
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