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

Andy Marks andy.marks at tesco.net
Wed Sep 6 08:18:14 BST 2017


----- Roger Darlington <rogerarm at freeuk.com> wrote:
> On 5 Sep 2017, Dave Symes  wrote:
> > In article <ec36df7656.rogerarm at rogerarm.freeuk.com>,
> >    Roger Darlington <rogerarm at freeuk.com> wrote:

<Snip>

> 
> > Zip Archive them and to make the process a bit quicker turn off
> > compression.
> 
> > Dave
> 
> OK, many thanks all
> I think I used to know that several years ago.
> Fancy me forgetting...
> 
> Just one more question: I can't copy him the un-zipping thingy without 
> that being tampered with as well, so does anyone know if that comes 
> with RO 5 from ROOL on their micro-SD card?

If he's using a standard RISC OS image for the Pi, a read-only version of SparkFS is included in the Utilities folder, which should open the zip file.

Andy




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