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.