[Coco] Suggestions for a simple disk based text editor?

[Richard E Crislip]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:35:43 +0000 (UTC)
spereira1952 at comcast.net wrote:

> Hello again all, 
> 
> My CoCo system is a CoCo 3 with HDBDOS cartridge and Drivewire. 
> 
> Recently, I typed in 1650+ lines of assembly source code (the source
> code for Color Forth from the manual). I typed this in a text editor
> on my Mac and transferred it onto my Drivewire computer via a memory
> stick. I used a file-to-DSK program (that runs as a command line
> program in a window under Windows XP on my Drivewire computer) to
> create a .DSK image with the ccforth.asm file on it, and I was then
> able to mount the disk and use EDTASM to assemble the file. I spent
> much of a day working my way through typographical errors, and
> changing mnemonics the EDTASM did not like. Now, I have a file that
> assembles properly. 
> 
> Now that I have reached this point, I would like to observe the
> listing file, so I can check the code produced by my typed-in program
> against the original code in the Color Forth manual. 
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion for me on a simple, disk-based text
> editor that I can acquire to look at the listing with? I am not yet
> using OS-9 or NitrOS-9, so, please suggest a stand-alone disk-based
> editor, if they exist. 
> 
> Otherwise, can someone point me to a .DSK to file converter, so I can
> get the file off of my virtual disk and bring it back over to my Mac? 
> 
> Thanks very much, in advance, for your suggestions! 
> 
> smp 
> - - - 
> Stephen Pereira 
> Bedford, NH 03110 
> KB1SXE 
> 
> 
> 

Question... what program did you use to convert it to a .dsk file? TIA