TI83 basic programming from PC

This should be such an easy task but I can't get it to work. I want to create a basic program using notepad, wordpad, etc and then download the program into my TI-83 se. I have the grey usb cable, ti-connect, and graphlink. I have tried different things. I can get the computerr to grab screen shots, download .83p files, so I know the link works. I dont see any way to give it a txt file and send it to the calc. Any advice will be appreciated.

Thanks
Ron

u cannot send .txt files to ur calculator
a program is a .8xp file or something

the pro grams that you can use on the calculator are
i-basic and that has it's own runtime enviro on the calc itself, if you want an application i think that asm lang stuff and i really don't know what they do for more info go to http://http://www.ticalc.org/basics...-84plus-se.html
all the way at th ebottom are tutorials for both

Hi,

I had a quick question regarding TI extended basic programming. Basically, I wanted to allow a user to input a function (as a string), but when the user presses "enter" without entering anything, the error "Invalid Dim" pops up.. The problem is with the line "Ans->Str1". Is there a way to safeguard against user inputting a non-string or an empty string? please let me know, thanks so much.

Following is part of the code:

Lbl GR
Asm(prgmNLOGO
MC
IS
ST,1,0,0,"GRAPH"
ST,1,0,40,"Y="
SI,4,0,50,90
Stop
Ans->Str1

I'm not entirely sure if this will work, but could you do something like Ans+(1 space)->Str1

Your fundamental problem is that internal storage of TI-basic programs uses an encrypted format, and there's no good way to convert ascii to this.
Only way I'm aware of, to create TI-basic on PC, is to key it into graphlink; after which ti-connect can download the program into actual ti-83.

You can save a notepad file as *.8xp instead of *.txt.