EDASM - What am I doing wrong?

[mjelic]

So with the help of Chickenman, I am able to get EDASM booted and even have a nice blank disk to save my files to.

Now I'm trying to get my head around the fairly unfriendly EDASM and I downloaded the manual and trying to find the commads to load and save files.  (That is always the first thing I try, becuase if you can't save your work, you may as well not bother.)

Now if I read the manual correctly, the command to use is G followed by "filename". On the disk that Chickenman provided, was a couple files that I presume are EDASM files: Example.edt and Examp2.edt
If I TYPE those files out from CPM, they certainly look like Assembly files.

But if I try to load them into EDASM, using the only load command I can find:  G"EXAMPLE.EDT", all I get is the misspelled error "Ilegal format"

So, I figure I must be doing something wrong, or I'm looking in the wrong instruction book, or...

Man, this is hard work getting into this...

[Ernest]

But if I try to load them into EDASM, using the only load command I can find:  G"EXAMPLE.EDT", all I get is the misspelled error "Ilegal format"

Try G EXAMPLE
That's G for Get and then space then the file name (limited to 8 characters) the .EDT is assumned.

Ernest

[mjelic]

Try G EXAMPLE
That's G for Get and then space then the file name (limited to 8 characters) the .EDT is assumned.

Ernest

Nope. Still not working.

[ChickenMan]

Well reading the microworld_z80_editor_assembler_instruction_manual_85.pdf manual, you can only Save and Get files from tape. 

From the manual Introduction - The Editor files may be saved to, or loaded from, cassette using the Save and Get commands.

G  Get from tape "NAME" or * and S  Save file called "NAME"

[mjelic]

Really?? They have a CP/M version of EDASM, that loads off a disk, but you can't save your work to that same diskette? Wow. I wonder if anyone ever actually used EDASM to discover this then said, blow this...

Thanks for looking into it, Alan.

PS. How do you "save" or "load" from a "tape" on uBee512?

[MbeeTech]

The way to load from disk is :

G<space>"NAME"<RETURN>
Must include the space and you don't include the EDT extension.

Example :
To load BASCOL.EDT :

G "BASCOL"<RETURN>

[mjelic]

The way to load from disk is :

G<space>"NAME"<RETURN>
Must include the space and you don't include the EDT extension.

Example :
To load BASCOL.EDT :

G  "BASCOL"<RETURN>

Ah, was missing the Space.

Editor/Assembler Technical Manual has the space missing.

Thanks, Ewan!