[Coco] Sock Master Demos

[Robert Gault]

Let's try one final time to resolve this. The problem is revolves about 
a proper understanding the terminology of the files and disk (.dsk) images.

arikboke at yahoo.com wrote:
> Robert,
> 
> Actually, that's what I meant.  Since the TOKENIZED files need to be saved as
> binary downloads, and my browser is evidently saving EVERYTHING in binary
> format, I wonder why they would not work (the ASCII files won't work because
> they're also being saved in binary format).

No to part of the above. It won't matter how you save ascii files. 
However, that probably is not relevant to your problems. It is the 
format in which the file is placed on the .dsk image that is causing a 
problem. Tokenized Basic files must be saved as tokenized files, ascii 
as ascii, and machine language files as binary. A crucial part of this 
is the type code placed in the directory. If that code is wrong, it 
won't matter what shape the files are in.
> 
> As I noted to Gene, my browsers do not seem to give me much leeway as far as
> downloading FILE TYPE, which is automatically set to "ALL FILES".  There is no
> other choice in Mozilla Firebird. 

Mozilla and therefore most likely Firebird permits a right click on a 
link. That brings up the choice "save link target as ...", a binary 
save. A double click on a link will save based on what the browser 
thinks the extension indicates, not necessarily binary. The right click 
choice should be good for any file.

>In Internet Explorer, there is another
> option of saving to a type related to the extension of the file being
> downloaded (e.g. ".BAS TYPE" when downloading "SAMPLE.BAS").  However, this
> does not seem to solve the problems I'm having.
> 

Try PORT.EXE instead of IMGTOOL. It may be easier for you to select the 
correct formats for file transfer.

> Well, I'm just about to give up and hope that somehow MESS's IMGTOOL is PUTting
> files on the .DSK image incorrectly.  If so, there may be an update in the near
> future.  If this is not the case, I've no more hair left to pull out, and my
> wife does not fancy the "monk" look :)  BTW the patched .DSK images you sent me
> work wonderfully! 

The images were made by creating empty files with Notepad, DSKINI-ing 
them from MESS (which made them 35 track single sided images), and 
transferring files to the .dsk with PORT (part of the Vavasour/Collyer 
emulator).

> I finally got to see DEMO2 and TWILIGHT TERM in action. 
> Thanks for all the help, and have a great Christmas!
> 
> Sincerely,
> David