Re: AppleSoft Basic Question

[bill@pro-storm.cts.com (Bill Long)]

In <1992Nov7.071014.13355@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz) writes:

>I remember reading a trick to convert an AppleSoft basic program to a text
>file so it could be printed out with a word processor.  Can anyone help me
>out with the method required to do this trick?  Somehow I lost the article.

Go into BASIC and LOAD the program you want to convert. Then add the
following line:

0 ? CHR$(4)"OPEN PROGRAM.TXT":? CHR$(4)"WRITE PROGRAM.TXT":LIST:?
CHR$(4)"CLOSE":END

Hmmm.. I think that's right. Then run the program. You should end up with a
text file of the program in the file PROGRAM.TXT. You can just delete the
line 0 in your word processor.

>I believe there is also a way to turn the text file back into an AppleSoft
>Basic program.  Any help would be appreciated.

After editing the program to your liking, just go back into BASIC and type:

EXEC PROGRAM.TXT

Now you have the new version of the program in memory. Now just SAVE it like
you normally would and you're all done! :)

-B.L.

P.S. Make sure that after you make the changes in your word processor that
you save it as a TEXT file and not an AWP file or something. :)

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