Msg: 2476 *Conference*
04-24-92 10:47:12
From: LEX JENKINS
To : DERWOOD TWIGG
Subj: LPM ETC.
Hi, Derwood, I rechecked my download of LPM, which ran fine, and compared your notes with LPMDOC. Sounds like you've done everything right in your attempts to run the program. The problem, more than likely, is that one of the program files has become corrupted. Xmodem transfers often add "garbage" characters to .DO files, including ASCII versions of BASIC programs - just a side effect of its error-checking. If the program is converted from ASCII to BASIC without first stripping out the garbage it'll sometimes crash when run. Granted, this is less likely with LPM because the files were in .BA and .CO format when you downloaded them. However, it's worth double checking. First, be sure your program files are the correct length: LPM.BA=12,499; LPM.CO=6,736; LPMDAT.CO=777. If they do check out OK there's still the possibility that a POKE or DATA statement was altered slightly during transmission. This may be a result of downloading these particular files through your PC, but since I've never tried this I really can't say for sure. What strikes me as odd about your experience is having the Top, End and Execute addresses, followed by an ?OM message, appear when you try to run the program. The only times I've ever had this happen is when I've tried to LOADM .CO files from tape, which I've given up on. Now when I want to archive .CO files to tape I first convert them to .BA using CO2BA, and sometimes even convert the .BA to ASCII, which seems to cause the fewest save and load problems with tape. The wonderful world of Model T computing. You have to have a taste for problem-solving to think of this as fun! Of course, PCs are no better... just different problems. <Lex>