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As soon as you type ADAM <CR>, you will get a screen prompt:\\ 
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 Then it pauses and you type in B (or whatever drive your SMARTWRITER file is on). ADAM will then respond with a screen prompt something like this:\\ 
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 It stops for you to type the file name to be converted. If the file SORT is to be converted then you would type SORT --- just as it appears. Then you will get the following screen prompt:\\ 
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At this point it stops for you to insert the TYPE. In the case of SORT the TYPE is A.\\ 
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Then you get the next prompt:\\ 
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NAME CPM FILE ?\\ 
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It stops again for you to give your new CP/M file a name and file extension, if appropriate. I will identify the new file SORT.BAS. The extension (or filetype) of BAS indicates that it is a BASIC file. This doesn't mean a lot to ADAM SMARTBASIC, but for other BASIC programs such as MICROSOFT BASIC, the file extension of BAS is important. If the file is just a text file I usually write TXT for the extension. Actually, you don't have to give any extension. Sometimes .001 or .002 help identify which version of a file it is.\\ 
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Anyway, as soon as you type the file name and extension, the transfer process starts. It is usually pretty fast and as soon as the file is in CP/M you get this screen prompt:\\ 
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If that's all for now, --- then type N . Normally you should be able to take a look at the transferred file by typing TYPE SORT.BAS <CR>. (SMARTKEY VI will enter TYPE which is easier than typing it).\\ 
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Try it. But you won't be able to read it, because it will fly past so fast it is impossible to read. OK! How about typing it out on the printer? In CP/M you can direct anything that goes to the screen to be printed, by just typing ^P (control-P) that is simultaneously pressing the CONTROL KEY and P). Do that and then type TYPE SORT.BAS followed by pressing <CR>.\\ 
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The printer begins to type and the first line looks good. But from there on, it just types over and over and over that same line. You can stop it with a ^C (CONTROL C). One of the problems here is that we have carriage returns but no line feeds. Is this anyway to run a railroad?\\ 
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Did you ever notice in the back of the CP/M manual, in APPENDIX D, beginning on page D35 there is a thing called ADAM Filter Program? It was written by Stephen Munnings. Coleco didn't say what is was for or what you did with it. And nowhere (that I ever found) was there any comment about the weird behavior I mentioned above. There is a really strange comment in the manual on page B45 that "You might notice some unrecognizable characters--garbage. These characters were used to tell SMARTWRITER what margins, spacing, and tabs the file required. Now that you've converted the file to CP/M 2.2 these characters are unnecessary and can be deleted."\\ 
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Well here's where that Filter Program is used. It will rectify those missing line feeds and other extraneous "garbage". But that will have to be our topic next time. The Munnings Filter Program does work, but there are shorter and superior filter programs which I will discuss in our next article.\\ 
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EDITOR'S FOOTNOTE. Let's have some feedback on this series.  Should we print one chapter each issue?. Or should we print more. Until I know how many of the members are interested in acquiring a working knowledge of CP/M, it is impossible for me to accurately gauge the effect printing one or more of these articles, will have on the readability of the newsletter from the point of view of those people for whom it is intended, the group members.\\ 
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