Ok I finally found some documentation on TEENY and it looks like I have to
use Windows and run TEENY.EXE on it. Grrr....
Curtis Vaughan | Computer Consultant
AvantGuard Computer and Security Systems
Phone: (206) 423-6979 ▪ Web: www.avantguardsystems.com
On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 4:15 PM AvantGuard Systems <
cavaug...@avantguardsystems.com> wrote:
> Ok, i've got TEENY.CO running, but have no idea what I'm supposed to do.
> Where are the instructions?
>
> Curtis Vaughan | Computer Consultant
> AvantGuard Computer and Security Systems
> Phone: (206) 423-6979 ▪ Web: www.avantguardsystems.com
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 2:37 PM Jim Anderson <jim.ander...@kpu.ca> wrote:
>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> >
>> > Well, if I try to rename ADVENT1.BA to ADVEN.DO, it still says file
>> already exists and
>> > actually it just creates ADVENT1.BA in RAM.
>>
>> Just wanted to point out that when it was suggested to rename the file,
>> the idea was to rename it on the PC end rather than typing a new name for
>> it when you load it through TS-DOS. If you give a new name, it will only
>> rename the first part of the name - the two character extension cannot be
>> changed during a TS-DOS load or save operation and it will insist on
>> keeping the original file type.
>>
>> One bit of key information you might not be aware of regarding file
>> types, if the file you are transferring is a plain text listing of a BASIC
>> program it must be transferred as a file ending in .DO so that the Model T
>> will know it is a text file. You can then go into BASIC on the Model T and
>> load it, at which point it will tokenize it and you can save it as a
>> tokenized .BA file.
>>
>> If you load a .BA file using TS-DOS it must be a tokenized file. You can
>> check by opening the .BA file in a text editor on your PC and see if it's a
>> text listing or if it's a lot of high-ASCII (looks like garbage) with some
>> plain text strings mixed in.
>>
>> Another thing, something you had said in a prior message sounded to me
>> like you thought you needed to load the file from disk (the mComm server on
>> the PC) and then save it in RAM. It's useful to remember that RAM in the
>> Model T *is* the filesystem, so you don't load into RAM and then save to
>> local storage. RAM is the local storage. What the Save function in TS-DOS
>> is used for is to copy files out of the RAM filesystem onto the disk device
>> (the mComm server). If you've been hitting Load and Save on a bunch of
>> files, maybe take a minute to double-check what's in your mComm TPDD folder
>> to make sure you didn't write back some of these empty or 1-byte files into
>> your PC...
>>
>> The easiest way to remember the meaning of Load and Save is to remember
>> that originally you were Loading files from and Saving files to an external
>> battery-powered floppy drive (the Tandy Portable Disk Drive, hence the
>> acronym TPDD). Now, we're using a PC with mComm or LaddieAlpha or dlplus
>> or other TPDD emulators, so we're Loading from or Saving to those devices.
>>
>> Aside from these things (which are useful bits of info to know when you
>> are just starting out), I agree that it does sound like your Model T
>> filesystem is corrupt. The easiest thing to inject is TEENY because it's,
>> well, tiny :) but IMHO even though it's bigger the easiest to deal with
>> would be TSLOAD (by transferring the contents of TSL100.DO from Joshua's S3
>> bucket which he just posted about). This will create TSLOAD.CO in your
>> machine which loads TS-DOS on demand from the PC whenever you need it, so
>> it's not taking up so much of your Model T's RAM.
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