Re: Apple// CP/M question

[Mike Pfaiffer <pfaiffer@mts.net>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
> In article <3A1070CE.E6046A73@mts.net>,
> Mike Pfaiffer  <pfaiffer@mts.net> wrote:
> 
> > The problem: My brother had some CP/M disks from his old Apple//e
> > clone. He now wants some source code he developed which he has on one of
> > the disks. He says he wants hard copy.
> >
> > Attempts at a solution: Since MSDOS was basically a rip of CP/M I tried
> > printing it directly. No go.
> 
> Of course not - for two reasons:
<snip> 

> > His text editor is no longer functional.
> 
> Can he attach a printer to his CP/M machine?  If the source code is
> in text file format, simply do:
> 
>     PIP PRN:=<filename.ext>
> 
> to print the file (this requires the file PIP.COM on the CP/M
> diskette).  If the source code is in BASIC; chances are that it is
> tokenized.  You must then first convert it to ASCII.  In MBASIC you
> do the conversion like this (requires MBASIC.COM on the diskette,
> and we assume the program is named MYPROG.BAS):

	It was an ASCII file. This solution worked. Thanks.

				Later
				Mike



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