Re: IIe to ibm file transfer. Help! :)

[chrisw@eagle.ais.net (Chris Wicklein)]

Michael Hickey (sirius@spirit.com.au) wrote:
: In article <1996060110015879557@digby.compulink.co.uk>,
: digbyj@cix.compulink.co.uk (Dr Digby L. James) wrote:

: > At present I have a problem - is is possible to convert Apple BASIC
: > programs to ASCII ON A PC? I have some that need to go into QBASIC for
: > re-writing, and I haven't got access to an Apple II for the purpose of
: > saving them as ASCII.

: It certainly is possible, but you _will_ need access to an Apple II of
: some description!! (Unless you want to retype the entire program into
: QBASIC - after all, that _is_ a valid option!)  You cannot simply shove an
: Apple II disk into a PC and expect it to work, the arrangement of the data
: on the disks are completely incompatible  (see other posts).  

	It sounds more like this person has the programs on a PC, but 
cannot use an Apple II.  There may be (ancient) PC software to 
de-tokenize an Applesoft program, but I'm not familiar with any.  Maybe 
someone else has?

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