[Coco] Loading ASCII BASIC over serial?

[Aaron Wolfe]

As I just mentioned in our passing emails, I think its the "ascii
flag" attribute that DECB needs to be correct, rather than the .txt vs
.bas extension.  The extension is effectively controlling whether
ascii flag is set via the file extension settings in config.xml.

I will work towards making things easier.  They are very manual right now.

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
> Aha, got it to load! It *was* expecting tokenized if I name it .BAS. With it .TXT I was able to do LOAD"COCO/TXT" and it parsed it into real BASIC.
>
> On Oct 2, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Chris Osborn wrote:
>
>> I tried naming it as .BAS but it loaded as garbage. It sort of looks like it's expecting it to be the tokenized form of a BASIC program. Also, I'm using HDB-DOS so that I could use Extended BASIC. Is there a way to tell BASIC to read in the text file as commands, sort of like the EXEC command on the Apple II?
>>
>> It still seems to me you could examine the contents of the file and look at existing extension and the requested CoCo extension to make a pretty good guess on the file type. And even throw in a call to file and get it to return the mime-type.
>>
>> On Oct 2, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know of any way to get this right automatically.  I can add
>>> arguments to the add command that lets you override the default
>>> attributes or add a command to change attributes, but I think it will
>>> have to be a manual process.
>>>
>>> Another alternative would be to follow DECB file naming conventions
>>> (BASIC programs would end in .BAS).  This would make things work with
>>> the defaults.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
>>>> 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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