Re: AppleSoft Basic to text

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Jeff Blakeney writes ...
> 
> 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.
>

     Which pretty well scraps a printout under Shadowrite via the IW2 driver.


 
> >
> >     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.
> 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.
 ....

     Yes-- messed up there-- if you can print out to the IIe, then the stuff
should appear on the IIe screen and be entered as though typed in. As long as
the print speed does not exceed the ability of the IIe to enter each BASIC
line, you should end up with the program in memory on the IIe. 



Rubywand