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.