[Coco] Programming help needed

[Dave Philipsen]

I’m certainly not a big fan of DECB disk programming due to its limitations nor am I an expert on it.  But, my first guess would be that instead of using a string you should write the data to the disk file using numeric expressions instead of string expressions.

I *think* WRITE #1, A will write the 8-bit value of A to the file.  It seems like that would be a way to get around the limitations of using a string to represent raw binary data.

Dave



> On Dec 1, 2018, at 6:59 PM, Paul Shoemaker <paulfe3 at swbell.net> wrote:
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> Need some advice. I am trying to store to a disk file a 48x40 section from a PMODE 4 screen. 
> The method I am attempting to use is to peek the byte values using a nested loop and save them as a string. For example, A$ = A$ + CHR$ (PEEK(&HE00+X+(Y*32))). Note I am storing the byte value as a CHR$ because doing so makes the completed string length only 240 bytes long. Creating the string is working fine; I have validated that. 
> Saving the string to a disk file is not working, however. When I execute a WRITE #1,A$ followed by a PUT #1,<record #>, Disk BASIC is not saving entire contents of A$. I believe it is parsing the string as it goes or something, as it seems to be ignoring or even stopping on some "special" CHR$ codes.. like CHR$(0). 
> Is there a way around this?
> Thanks!
> -Paul
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