steve (11/05/82)
>From dadla!tekmdp!teklabs!decvax!utzoo!utcsstat!wagner Fri Nov 5 04:30:48 1982 remote from dadla
Date: Wed Nov 3 23:28:08 1982
Since you answered a lot of coco questions, maybe you know how
to use the DLOAD command of extended basic? I asked on the
net before, and got no good leads, a few vague ones that didnt
work well, that was it.
Thanks in advance.
Michael Wagner, UTCS
The DLOADM command is one of the great mysteries of our times. It is
described as a command to allow downloading of machine language from
the RS-232 port, but there is no description of what the format is or of
what another Coco does to generate it.
There are several bulletin boards around the country dedicated to supporting
the Coco, the most notable of which are the two in Woodhaven (1-212-441-3755
and 1-212-441-3766). No-one on any of them seems to know what the command
does. A person here is Portland with connections in Tandy (for instance,
he is the person who came up with the information about the difference
between green-dot and non-green-dot disk drives - If you own a green-dot
drive, return it at once!) was not able to come up with a hint about it.
It is apparently possible for 'VIDEOTEX' (the communications package that
Tandy sells to talk to Compuserve) to download programs and run them locally.
I conjecture that VIDEOTEX is jumping into the DLOADM command inside of the
Coco, but that still doesn't explain why it is in the BASIC interpreter.
I understand that Micro-soft is on the net, and I am sure that people up
there read this news-group. One of our former Tekkies (one Jim Towne)
has gone up there to be your boss. How about enlightening us? What the hell
does the DLOADM command do? How do we use it? Please PLEASE either put in
on the net or by private mail to me (and I will forward it to my
correspondent)....
Steve Den Beste
Tektronix Logic Analyzers
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