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co2ba.sh

Reads a binary .CO file and generates an ascii BASIC loader .DO file

The general usage is
co2ba FILE.CO [action] [comment] > FILE.DO

FILE.CO is the input binary .CO filename that you want to bootstrap onto the portable.

action is what the loader should do with the .CO after it's done re-creating it on the portable:
call - Immediately execute - for TANDY, Kyotronic, Olivetti
exec - Immediately execute - for NEC
savem - Save FILE.CO - for TANDY, Kyotronic, Olivetti
bsave - Save FILE.CO - for NEC
Otherwise if the option is not given, or any other value than these, the loader will only print a message showing the Top, End, and Exec addresses of the loaded binary.

comment is an optional custom replacement text for the first half of the line #0 comment.
By default a basic comment giving the name of the .CO file is generated.
The 2nd half of the line always has co2ba.sh itself and the date it was run to generate the loader.
You can use this to give more info about the payload than just the filename.

FILE.DO is the output ascii BASIC .DO filename.

For example, to generate TSLOAD.200
co2ba TSLOAD.CO savem "TSLOAD for TANDY 200 - Travelling Software" >TSLOAD.200