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From: rmrin@inuxa.UUCP (D Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Need Programming Help
Message-ID: <219@inuxa.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 6-Dec-86 14:25:21 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  6 14:25:21 1986
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Hello World (oops, wrong book),
I'm finally finding some time to play
with a few of the goodies that come
past here but I need a little help.
I down loaded a very long game file
but since it was to big for my machine's
buffer and direct to disc always gives
errors, I split it into two files and
downloaded each seperately (I'm talking
hexadecimal file stuff).  I never did
figure out how to put the files together
using DOS 2.5 but with DOS 3.0 it 
worked, sort of.  Unfortunately now
I have a very long hex file with a
line right in the middle which says


$

(that's a system prompt and then 
probably a line feed).
When I convert the file, it starts up
fine but the screen goes back to the
startup before one can play (It's the
game like concentration).  I suspect
my problem is that spurious line feed
(In fact I'm amazed that it didn't 
cause the whole thing to bomb).
I'm using an 800XL and standard atari
disc drives.  The modem is a smart
modem, if that makes any difference.
My first question is how do I edit the
big file to get rid of that "$"?
My second question is how could I have
joined the two files using DOS 2.5?
Helpful hints much appreciated.