[Coco] Loading ASCII BASIC over serial?

[Chris Osborn]

Ok well I renamed the file from TRS80-CoCo.txt to CoCo.txt and it was able to put it on the disk. But not sure how to get it to load as a basic program.

On Oct 2, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> 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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