On Wed, 27 Sep 100 g.j.p.a.a.baltissen@kader.hobby.nl wrote: > Hallo allemaal, > > I know there exist some programs to convert BASIC to ASCII and visa versa. I > use some of my own and they work alright. But I doubt if anyone else can use > an ASCII-file of mine without running into conversion problems. > > My question is: Does a standard exist how to translate a PRG? The actual Basic program file is essentially a binary file. Translating to ASCII is meaningless. If you want to transfer Basic program files to other systems, it is best to list the program to a file. The resulting file is then in Commodore ASCII which can be translated to standard ASCII. For instance, if you have loaded your program into memory, you can produce a text listing of it on floppy drive 8 by: OPEN 1,8,8,"programname,s,w":CMD 1:LIST Wait for listing to stop and then: PRINT#1:CLOSE 1 There are routines available that can load a listing file into memory so that it can be saved and run in Basic. I use "Commodore Recruncher", published in Compute!, July 1985. - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tml.hut.fi.
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