[Virtualacorn-list] Saving BASIC programs from VA-SARPC for use on Rpi2 ??

Dave Symes dave at triffid.co.uk
Tue Sep 5 18:19:19 BST 2017


In article <ec36df7656.rogerarm at rogerarm.freeuk.com>,
   Roger Darlington <rogerarm at freeuk.com> wrote:

> A friend has bought a Raspberry Pi, so I thought I would copy him some 
> programs from my VA-RPC-SA (running on Windows 7) to a USB stick so 
> that he can run then on his Raspberry Pi2, using proper RISC OS, from 
> RISC OS Ltd.

> But when he tried to use them on his R Pi2, every single file had a 
> microsoft extension which prevented anything of the programs from 
> running.

> How can I copy prestine copies of my RO programs from my VA-RPC-SA to 
> a USB stick so that a proper RISC OS computer can use them?

> What am I doing wrong please?

Zip Archive them and to make the process a bit quicker turn off
compression.

Dave

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Dave Triffid




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