Msg: 5498 *Conference*
10-22-94 12:43:40
From: BILL EVANS
To : ROBERT BENSON, SYSOP
Subj: LIBRARY USE
I have recently signed up for access to the Club 100 Library, and have encountered a couple of problems in getting under way. First, I'm currently working from a shareware listing that I made from the LAPDOS II distribution disk. Since the files there are more or less randomly ordered, I find it a little dificult to determine which directory (category) to search to find a specific filename. There must be some easier way than cut-and-try when the cataloger's intentions are obscure. For example, I have yet to locate MVCDOC.DO, the documentation for the MVCWM3.BA spreadsheet program. Second, the practice of downloading all BASIC files in ASCII even though they are labeled with a .BA extension is giving me some trouble. My Model 100 expects .BA files to be tokenized and objects if they're not. The M-100 won't let me rename files with a different extension. When I rename the files to .DO (while they're still in my IBM PC) then transfer them to the M-100 using LAPDOS, the first few lines somehow get fouled up and need editing before BASIC will accept them. Is there a cleaner way of handling this problem? I would greatly appreciate any help in clearing these two hurdles.