Re: AppleSoft Basic to text

[Rubywand <rubywand@my-deja.com>]

>  rich12345@my-deja.com writes ...
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I use this method to edit my robots BASIC programs in Hermes/Shadowrite
on my IIgs.  It is slow to switch between BASIC and the finder with BYE
because of the time it takes to mount all of the disks onto the desktop.

I'd like to setup my IIe with a super serial card, connected directly to
the GS serial port.  From there, I'd load DOS into the IIe, edit
programs with Hermes on the GS, and then send the programs directly to
the IIe with the serial card

On the IIe I'd type IN#2 (slot of the Serial card) on the IIgs I'd
choose PRINT from Hermes

MY QUESTION:  is there a printer driver for the GS that'll let me print
to the IIe, and have it do no formatting, etc, so I get the program in
the IIe's memory as if I'd EXEC'd a text file?
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     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.

     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.

     Really, though, there should be a number of easier ways to handle
the editing. If your IIe is an enhanced 128k model, you could use
Beagle's Program Writer running on the IIe to handle editing and forget
about IIgs transfers. Program Writer is a much better BASIC program
editor than any plain Text editor. (Program Writer comes in DOS 3.3 and
ProDOS versions; so, you can edit programs on DOS 3.3 and ProDOS
diskettes.)

     Or, you could run Program Writer on the IIgs, edit the program on a
5.25" diskette, and move the diskette back to your IIe.




Rubywand


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