Re: AppleSoft Basic Question

[achauhan@warsaw.math.macalstr.edu (Amrit Chauhan)]

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.

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

I'm sure that someone already answered your question, but what the heck, I'll
put in my $0.02 anyway.

You can just add a line to the program, like so:

]1 PRINT CHR$(4) "OPEN FILENAME" : PRINT CHR$(4) "WRITE FILENAME": LIST :
   PRINT CHR$(4) "CLOSE FILENAME"

and you have yourself a TEXT file : FILENAME.  Then, when you want to make
it a BASIC program again, just do this:

]exec filename

and as long as there are no unncessary line feeds and carriage returns, it
should just put everything where it belongs and you'll have a basic program
in memory.

> 	Many thanks,
> 		...Mike

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> Michael Heintz, Oakland University - Rochester, Michigan
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