Or if you have a Rex, you can just back up that bank periodically. On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:23 PM John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote:
> " if I want to save a back-up of a program before I make changes can I > only do it as a .DO" > > Natively, yes. > > You can rename the program, but there is no way to copy it without loading > some special program to do it, or save/load from external. > > So to duplicate a file with a stock machine you'd need to save as a DO, > LOAD" it, then save it as a new file name. > > Which means you have to have enough space for the original, the tokenized > program + ASCII format. Then you can delete the ASCII file and have just > the two tokenized copies. > > If you simply need to take backups of RAM on occasion and you have a > serial cable and a PC you can consider my utility TBACK.EXE . It can > backup/restored the full RAM in about 9 seconds > > > -- John. > >> -- Tom Wilson wilso...@gmail.com (619)940-6311 K6ABZ