[Coco] Loading ASCII BASIC over serial?

[Chris Osborn]

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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