Apple IIe Manuale Utente

“TRANSLATE” UTILITY PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION    PAGE 2

"insert dos disk in drive2” and then to “press (spacebar) to continue” 

or “press (esc) to cancel.” First insert your disks as indicated and 

then press the space bar. TRANSLATE will let you know if either disk is 

formatted incorrectly or in the wrong drive.

Next, TRANSLATE asks you to enter the name of the file to be converted. 

First enter the file name and then press (return). TRANSLATE will let 

you know if it can’t find the file. NOTE: Pascal file names may not 

exceed 15 characters. (That’s INCLUDING the suffix “.text” which the 

program will add if you don’t.) Also note that DOS 3.3 will truncate a 

file name of over 30 characters, and TRANSLATE will convert a DOS file 

name entered in lower case to upper case.

Finally, TRANSLATE prompts you for the name of the (new) file to be 

created. First enter the file name and then press (return). TRANSLATE 

will let you know if it can’t create the new file; otherwise, the 

process begins. WARNING: TRANSLATE does not check to see if another 

file with the same name is already on the disk. If it is, in Pascal the 

directory listing of the previous file with the same name is removed; in 

DOS a second (or third) file with the same name is created.

Pressing (esc) after this point will cancel the program and return you 

to the “dos conversion” menu. However, the new file will exist; its 

name will appear on the directory; and it will contain everything 

processed until you pressed the (esc) key.

Notes and Suggestions

(1)

The four “disk manager” options may be used in any order and as 

often as you like, with one exception: DO NOT SELECT THE TRANSLATE 

OPTION AFTER YOU HAVE USED THE FORMAT OPTION. To use TRANSLATE again 

after formatting a disk, you must first turn off the power to your Apple 

and then re—start ThinkTank by turning it on again.

(2)

ThinkTank’s STRUCTURED style uses embedded commands such as “.HEAD” 

which may be misinterpreted by a DOS application program when it prints 

your file. This can easily be avoided by removing them before printing 

with the DOS program. Even better, use PLAIN instead of STRUCTURED 

style for this purpose.

(3) Lines from ThinkTank paragraphs that you ended with hyphens or 

“forced” carriage returns may be missing a blank space after being 

TRANSLATEd into DOS. This, too, can easily be avoided. If you know you 

will be converting ThinkTank text into DOS, do not add hyphens or your 

own carriage returns when creating ThinkTank paragraphs.

New Error Messages

“can’t create dos (pascal) file”

“can’t open dos (pascal) file”

“disk in drivel (drive2) is not a pascal (dos 3.3) disk”

“ reading from dos (pascal) file”

“error writing to dos (pascal) file” or “can’t write to dos file”