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Subject: Re: My SpartaDOS question...
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Date: 1 Mar 89 23:39:00 GMT
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   I have fogured out how to get machine language programs to load
with the SpatraDOS X cart., but now I have run across a strange
problem I can't quite figure out.  I put a vt100 terminal on a newly
formatted disk, and then I put a config.sys file on the disk with
the command COPY CON: CONFIG.SYS.  I then ran the vt100 program with
the command X VT100.OBJ.  I wanted to see if everything was ok, so
I logged onto the schools system and did an ascii capture.  I also
wrote a default file and a macro key file to the disk for the terminal
program.  I then got a directory of the disk.  The ascii file I had
just captured was over 200 sectors long!  I knew this was wrong because
it was only four or five screens worth..  I went back into dos and got
a directory, and the ascii file, the config.sys file, the macro, and
the default file were all over 700k long!  Some simple arithmatic will
tell you that 4 700k files do not fit on a 180k disk...  The terminal
program works, because I have been using it for a long time with MYdos,
and it works fine.  What bothers me is that a file put there by sparta
dos it self didn't seem to work right...  Aside from this problem, I
still can't get the terminal program to load with the faster data trans-
fer (the X command seems to dissable it..).  If anyone can help me, it
would be greatly appreciated...  Otherwise, I think the disk based
version of sparta dos is starting to look very good....
      Thanks,    Raymond Courtois
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