Re: AppleSoft Basic to text

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 05:09:31 GMT, Rubywand <rubywand@my-deja.com>
wrote:

>     The regular Imagewriter II driver should let you transfer Text
>without formatting so long as your Printer Port is set up for unlimited
>line length (and, probably, not to send an LF after a CR-- not sure
>about that).  Within Shadowrite, in the Print dialog box, you would
>probably want "Sheet feed" to be manual.

If you set the Sheet Feed option to Manual you'd end up having to
click a button on the IIgs after every 66 lines or so of program that
gets sent.  You'd be better of using the Automatic option as it will
just send the entire document without asking the user to insert the
next sheet of paper.

However, I just tried this method and it doesn't work.  The
ImageWriter II driver sends extra stuff at the beginning of each line
even when the Quality option is set to Text Only.

>
>     But, doing a NEW on the IIe and doing the Text transfer from the
>IIgs will not automatically produce a BASIC program on the IIe. You
>would have the Text and would still need to do an EXEC on the IIe in
>order to have the BASIC program in memory.

Actually, it does enter it into memory.  If he types IN#2 on his IIe
then anything he types or sends from his IIgs will be interpreted by
the IIe as if he had typed it on the IIe's keyboard.  So if he sends
the text "10 D$=CHR$(4)" then the IIe will think he typed it and enter
it into memory as a line of Applesoft code.

>     Really, though, there should be a number of easier ways to handle
>the editing.

I agree.  Trying to print using a GS/OS driver probably isn't the way
to go.  The editors you mentioned and the method I mentioned in a
different post to this thread are all much easier.

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