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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: MSB
Message-ID: <33445@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 89 04:16:53 GMT
References: <8907212219.aa03333@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8907212219.aa03333@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) writes:
>  I am trying to transfer data from an text file (created via Appleworks)
>to a file for use in BusinessWorks, which denotes the end of a field
>by setting the MSB of the last character.  Applesoft seems to automatically
>turn off the MSB.  Is there any easy way of bypassing that?

Since you don't want to use assembly, the only thing I can think of is
using BSAVE to save into the file.  You can POKE the value you want
somewhere (like 768) and BSAVE it into your file using ,Bxxx,A768,L1.
You'll probably be able to do that only with the file closed.  You
may want to do all the output to the file this way, since you'd have
to keep re-opening the file to output more text to it.

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