Brian D. Deuel Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 I know I'm going to feel REALLY silly for asking this, but no one has scanned in *any* of the original Atari manuals, and the books that are scanned in don't have this answer for me.... I know there's a way to check the file listing on a floppy from Atari BASIC (NOT DOS; I know how to do that). My question is, how? What is the command? It's been *so* long that I've totally forgotten, and my searches have turned up nothing. Any help offered would be appreciated. Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 By use of the XIO command...I'll see if I can track down the list of super-handy little one-liners that can be executed from a disk via the ENTER statement (not erasing the memory). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D. Deuel Posted May 14, 2003 Author Share Posted May 14, 2003 That's right! There isn't really a "simple" command like Apple has ("catalog"). I found more info about Atari's disk I/O here: http://www.atariarchives.org/c1ba/page054.php Thanks for jogging my memory! Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Found it... http://www.atarimagazines.com/v8n1/atariba...hancements.html Those files can be viewed in Notepad (since they are in LISTed format). Save them to a disk or the Ramdisk by using that command to create them, and use them by simply ENTER"D:COMMAND.NAM" Like ENTER"D:DIR" to read a directory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Oh...I believe that those short programs can be written to a disk by using DOS itself to "copy" the editor channel (E:)...the way that works is to select the copy option, and enter this on the from,to? prompt: E:,D:{filename} Everything you type will be written directly to the file (including the enter key). Press the Break key to close the file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D. Deuel Posted May 14, 2003 Author Share Posted May 14, 2003 Thanks! It appears that enhance.bas is missing from that page, though Not a big deal, though. I can use the info there to write my own routine now Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 No, the program is there. These pages are just the articles, the programs are found in the archives. But they are small enough to type in quickly anyway. The individual command one-liners can be found at the bottom of that page. (be sure to use the enter key in place of the "boxes" that show up in Notepad) The entire tokenized program that creates those files... http://www.atarimagazines.com/software/89-...05a/ENHANCE.BAS (for use with emulators or SIO2PC) But I find it easier just to use the DOS copy method to create them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 I wrote that same program a looooooong time ago PRoblem is you lose your Basic program to run it just like going to DOS, buts its a few sectors less to load Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Ummm.... You don't run the Basic program when you need to use one of the routines...you use the ENTER command with one of the routines it creates (which uses no memory and will not erase any program in memory). The routines are written to the disk without line numbers, so they are executed in "immediate" mode (going directly into the keyboard buffer, just as if you'd typed them yourself). Much quicker than using the MEM.SAV method if all you want to do is pull up a directory or something. And the Hex conversion routine came in handy for POKE/PEEK arguments, since memory maps generally used Hex notation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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