jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (07/28/87)
The Turbo BASIC disk turns out to be a boot disk, i.e. it has a "special" DOS.SYS on it which contains, presumably, the interpreter. I assume that there is no easy way to transmit this as a uuencoded file, because the decoded file cannot be written back to the disk by DOS in the proper way. Does anybody know if there IS a way to do this to save me having to mail all the disks out? I.e. a way that does not require me to write a special version of uudecode and or uuencode? Any nifty ideas or should I start either writing the program or mailing the disks? -John Sangster, jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa
jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (07/29/87)
Stop the presses!!! Several people replied to my plea for help with offers of programs to encode a boot disk as a file and then reconstruct the boot disk. As there have been <MANY> requests, I will try to use that method rather than physical mail, except in cases where the requestor has no way to download a file. If you are in that category, PLEASE REPEAT YOUR REQUEST WITH MAILING ADDRESS. I hope that will be a very small number of mailings. ALL OTHERS please standby, and I will soon post (a) the program(s) to encode and decode boot disks, and (b) the encoded 800 Turbo BASIC disk. NOTE: The excitement is about a version for the 800 (or presumably 400 upgraded to 48K). Latecomers who have 800XLs or XE machines want the XL/XE version, which has some advantages. If you are in that category, please request the XL/XE version if you lack it. At present, there is no COMPILER for the 800, or at least I don't have it. (There is a compiler to go with the XL/XE version.) -John Sangster / jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa
oaa@houxl.UUCP (O.ALEXANDER) (07/29/87)
In article <8707282140.AA27106@mitre-bedford.ARPA>, jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA.UUCP writes: > NOTE: The excitement is about a version for the 800 (or presumably 400 > upgraded to 48K). Latecomers who have 800XLs or XE machines want the > XL/XE version, which has some advantages. If you are in that category, > please request the XL/XE version if you lack it. > > -John Sangster / jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa Do you or anyone know if the 800 version will work with SpartaDOS (from ICD) version 2.x or 3.x. The XL/XE version does not because they both use the ram under the O.S. Owen Alexander