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| Tim036 Newbie  Joined: 25/11/2014 Location: United KingdomPosts: 17 |
I'm using the simple 28 pin device with MMBASIC pre programmed into it. Now comms into the device was a bit of a challenge as minicom thought it was an old fashioned modem *LOL* But Picocom worked brilliantly. A few snags such as function keys not working, but using control codes overcame that. The version of linux is XUBUNTU running on a 10 year old Thinkpad Laptop. Now all is well, but a snag has come up . (I have been using Kate as an editor for years.) Now when in 'Edit' I can copy the program I have written and tested, pop it into Kate so I can print it. But I can't paste it back into edit. Now I'm used to doing a 'Save As...' on the many variants of a program I'm developing as I add features. But I've not discovered how to from within 'Edit' how to directly save a program or how to reload a program once saved. So the question is... Is it possible and how to do it, if it is possible ? Many thanks for any thoughts on this matter. 
Tim |
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| cwilt Senior Member  Joined: 20/03/2012 Location: United StatesPosts: 147 |
Look into the autosave function. |
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| Tim036 Newbie Joined: 25/11/2014 Location: United KingdomPosts: 17 |
Many thanks, I'll try that out tomorrow. 
Tim |
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| Tim036 Newbie Joined: 25/11/2014 Location: United KingdomPosts: 17 |
The manual says this about 'Autosave' Enter automatic program entry mode. This command will take lines of text from the console serial input and save them to memory. This mode is terminated by entering Control-Z which will then cause the received data to be saved into program memory overwriting the previous program. At any time this command can be aborted by Control-C which will leave program memory untouched. This is one way of transferring a BASIC program into the Micromite. The program to be transferred can be pasted into a terminal emulator and this command will capture the text stream and store it into program memory. It can also be used for entering a small program directly at the console input. end quote I can copy and paste one line aok but a block of code gets trashed. So the problem is not solved.
Tim |
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TassyJim Guru  Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5923 |
Tim, You need to have a delay between each line being pasted. TeraTerm (Windows), has a setting to do this. The terminal program you are using might (hopefully) have an option to put a line delay in also. Jim VK7JH MMedit  MMBasic Help |
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| hitsware Guru Joined: 23/11/2012 Location: United StatesPosts: 535 |
> I can copy and paste one line aok but a block of code gets trashed. Just RUN it. The MicroMite saves everything ran. |
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| Tim036 Newbie Joined: 25/11/2014 Location: United KingdomPosts: 17 |
Hi Jim, would a series of tabs do the job ? (Update :- No it does not) Many thanks for responding ! 
Tim GW1JOV |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5923 |
I doubt it. I couldn't see an obvious setting for line speed in picoterm so you may have to find an alternative program. If you can run Wine, and are willing to do so, TeraTerm or MMEdit are worth trying. Rather than use Wine's serial port translation, I find ser2net works well and then either program can connect by TCP/IP to localhost. Jim VK7JH VK7JH MMedit  MMBasic Help |
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| Tim036 Newbie Joined: 25/11/2014 Location: United KingdomPosts: 17 |
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| Tim036 Newbie Joined: 25/11/2014 Location: United KingdomPosts: 17 |
I can develop one program and copy and paste into Kate using Linux. Them swich to Windows 7 when I want to load it back in. All my hard drives are in cradles so I can change OS easily. A bit clumpy but minimum hassle. Many many thanks for your help, Jim.
Tim |
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| cwilt Senior Member Joined: 20/03/2012 Location: United StatesPosts: 147 |
Try PuTTY. I had good luck entering code with it although I did not try to load code with it. |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3678 |
Can you send using XModem? Linux has apps for that. John |
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| Tim036 Newbie Joined: 25/11/2014 Location: United KingdomPosts: 17 |
Many thanks for your help ! Meanwhile I got slightly sidetracked by trying to get more familiar with programming language it has. I'm very very rusty so I've stuck as to the syntax of writing a very simple subroutine to pass a number from the main body of the code to a subroutine. Could anyone post a very simple example of the code that does this ? (All I get is error messages *LOL*) Sorry to ask such a 'noddy' question. 
Tim |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5923 |
The first sticky in this section points to a number of reference sites that should give plenty of examples. You can safely ignore any of the CFUNCTIONS for now. This is a simple example of a SUB: ' subroutine demo
test1$="abcdefghijg" test2$="abcde" print test1$;" "; test2$ samelen test1$, test2$ print test1$;" "; test2$ end Sub samelen (a$, b$) ' pads the shorter variable with leading zeros local dif, z$ dif=Abs(Len( a$ )-Len( b$ )) z$=String$(dif,"0") If Len( a$ ) < Len( b$ ) Then a$ = z$+a$ Else b$ = z$+b$ EndIf End Sub Showing us the code you are having problems with will help... Jim VK7JH MMedit  MMBasic Help |
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| Tim036 Newbie Joined: 25/11/2014 Location: United KingdomPosts: 17 |
Many many thanks Jim. I'll study that and learn a lot ! Greatly appreciated !
Tim |
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| Tim036 Newbie Joined: 25/11/2014 Location: United KingdomPosts: 17 |
I modified it to deal with numbers, as strings are interesting but not often used by me. And came up with this inelegant but working first stab at the task:- 'subroutine demo test1=3 test2=5 Print test1;" "; test2 samelen test1, test2 Print test1;" "; test2 End Sub samelen (a, b) If a=3 Then ' change to test this subroutine b=b+a+10 Else b=b+a-10 EndIf End Sub Thank you very much Jim for getting me going, on what was a big hurdle for me (probably trivial for most students) : ))) Tim |
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