Msg: 4288 *Conference*

05-01-93 17:28:50

From: GLENN LEAVITT

To : RICK

Subj: IDEA! AND LAPDOS

Rick, Thanks for your patient support. Someday all this stuff will sink into my
scrambled, old dyslexic brain. 
 Ok, you can't put files "in" IDEA!; but I opened a file, PRFILE.DO, while in
IDEA!. After working on it for a while, I needed to make room for another
project, so I saved it on a disc. Now, when I reload it, it only appears on the
regular menu, but not on the IDEA! menu. To save things, I normally use the
"menu" (DOS off) method, because it seems the "DOS on" method is only a
needless waste of memory (right, or is there some advantage I don't
understand?), but I may have used "DOS on" to save PERFILE. Anyway, no matter
which method I try now, I can't get PRFILE back so it appears on the IDEA! menu
. Before sending this to you, I created a TEST.DO file in IDEA!. Using the "DOS
off,"and then the "DOS on" method, I saved TEST, then retrieved it so it
appeared on the IDEA! }enu. You said that if I had used "DOS on" to save
PRFILE, I'd have use TEXT and then <f3> to get it back on the IDEA! menu, but
when I try this my computer only clicks angrily like I'm asking it to do
something it doesn't want to do? When I look at PRFILE (through T-WORD), it
says at the top that it's an IDEA! file. Isn't there some way I can get PRFILE
back on the IDEA! menu, so I can work on it some more? 
 Now to LAPDOS and the mysterious list of files: Lousy reader that I am, I
depended heavily on a friend with a DOS computer, when we used LAPDOS to make
my DOS computer produced book manuscript (done by my secretary before I
retired) readable on my 102. At the end of our session, my friend said,
"There's a long list of programs on this disc." So I asked him to print it out
so I could look it over when I got home. Since the friend with the DOS computer
lives quite a way from here, I thought it would be easier to ask you about the
programs. If I understand your response correctly, LAPDOS has a "library" list
of file names which are not actually on the disc, but there are also about 20
complete programs on the LAPDOS disc that I could access and use in my 102, if
I had a DOS computer to read the disc (which I don't). I wasn't getting a "Not
Found" message because I was not doing things right on a DOS computer, I was
getting that message because I was trying to access the LAPDOS disc with my
102. Now I think I see the error of my ways: as long as I only have a 102 with
Tandy disc drive, I can't access the stuff on the LAPDOS disc; but if I join
the Club Library, I'll be able to directly load and use a lot of nifty
programs, right? 
 Only after I studied a printout of your response, did I notice your comment at
the end about a detail sheet (DO82T.DOI could access by tapping E, then A. I'll
try to access that file now. Thanks.