> On Oct 21, 2022, at 10:32 PM, r Gi <rgil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am repeatedly getting a DS ERROR most of the time when I try to load a > program. It happens a short time after starting the upload. Any help would be > appreciated
Nearly all of the DS ERRORs I have received while reading BASIC programs over serial have been victims of formatting errors. There are many on the internet, particularly in the CompuServ archive, that have been line wrapped. I've run into this with programs OCRed from books as well. Just as if you were typing the program, hitting Enter too early and then continuing to type would execute a direct statement. Doing so is not allowed while you're LOADing. That's what happened to me while loading these various files. Fixing the line wrapping solves the issue.
