Oh yeah, that too. And unix LF-only line-endings. BASIC (on these machines) can take either CRLF or CR-only, but not LF-only. But I think in most cases pasting into a terminal program would probably generate new line-endings, so even if the original file had LF, the term program may output CRLF to the remote end depending on it's settings.
-- bkw On Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 9:09 AM Joshua O'Keefe <maj...@nachomountain.com> wrote: > > 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.
