Nickolas & everyone else on this thread:
Again, I _really_ disagree with this tip. It shouldn't make any difference as
to the name. I renamed the files to .dsk and it really didn't make any
difference at all, for me anyway. Just wanted to reiterate that myself and
many, many other users have not had this problem either.
My $.02
CORD COSLOR
Nickolas Marentes wrote:
> Thanks Paul! I will add this tip onto my Web Page. Could solve many
> people's problems.
>
> > I had some problems using the wonderful files I downloaded from
> > Nickolas' web page as well, initially. I was downloading the file under
> > MS-DOS, then renaming from *.zip to *.dsk, then porting it to the CoCo
> > using the emulator. Couldn't get it to dshrink in any format (ASCII
> > thru binary).
> >
> > Then it occurred to me that by renaming the file in MS-DOS, I was
> > slightly changing the contents (the first few bytes of the file, I
> > imagine), thus making it unuseable. The solution was to port it over
> > with the .ZIP extension as a binary executable, then rename it under
> > CoCo BASIC. Worked like a charm.
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