Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!apple!voder!pyramid!ctnews!tsnews!ward From: ward@tsnews.Convergent.COM (Ward Griffiths) Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy Subject: Re: Comunication. Summary: No sweat Message-ID: <841@tsnews.Convergent.COM> Date: 26 Oct 90 20:55:22 GMT References: Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA Lines: 39 > I am trying to transfer a basic program form a trs 80 to another. I tried > through the rs232 using the communication program but it seems that whereas a > text file will travl fine, the transfer is aborted as soon as I try with a > basic file. Any ideas ? > > Thank you. > > Olivier Fischer Save the program as an ASCII text file. SAVE "PROGRAM.BAS",A Works for me. I used to move programs that way between all models of Tandy computers that weren't media compatible: Mod 1/3/4 <==> Mod 2/12/16 TRSDOS Mod 1/2/3 <==> Mod 16/6000 Xenix Mod 1/3/4 <==> Mod 100/102/200 Mod 1/3/4 <==> Tandy 2000/other MeSs-DOS Mod 1/3/4 <==> Color Computers The list can be continued with the rest of the product lines in the right-hand column. A normally saved BASIC program is a binary file with the keywords tokenized, and different versions use different translation tables for them. ASCII sends them spelled out. I've got programs I wrote in 1978 on the Mod I occasionally executing with MS-BASIC under SCO Xenix and on my AT&T Unix PC. Minimal changes, mostly file I/O. BTW, which models are you transferring between? -- The people that make Unisys' official opinions get paid more. A LOT more. Ward Griffiths, Unisys NCG aka Convergent Technologies =========================================================================== To Hell with "Only One Earth"! Try "At Least One Solar System"! "Let's get out of here. They've run out of meat. Funerals are a pain when there are more than twenty people. Never get enough to eat." Donald Kingsbury, "Courtship Rite": Gaet to Honey