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Re: AppleSoft Basic Question

In <1992Nov7.071014.13355@vela.acs.oakland.edu> mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu 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.
> 
> I believe there is also a way to turn the text file back into an AppleSoft
> Basic program.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
Append the following lines to your program:

63000 print chr$(4);"OPEN LISTFILE":print chr$(4);"WRITE LISTEFILE"
63010 list 1,62999
63020 print chr$(4);"CLOSE":end

and then do a "RUN 63000".
To convert it back to a BASIC file, use

NEW
EXEC LISTFILE
SAVE BASFILE

This doesn't work perfectly for all instances (eg. long BASIC lines or DATA
lines) but is simple.

- Wulf


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