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From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Applesoft BASIC
Message-ID: <1990Aug19.012206.27798@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 19 Aug 90 01:22:06 GMT
References: <24148@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
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In article <24148@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> bb0@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
>I have several rather large programs written in Applesoft BASIC.  I now want
>to make some changes, but I find these files hard to work with in the BASIC
>environment.  Is there a way to translate the BASIC files to text files?
>Getting them back is simple enough, but these are 10-15 page programs and I'm
>NOT going to retype them!
>Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
>-Bowie           bb0@beach.cis.ufl.edu
>                         or
>               garm%pine.decnet@oak.circa.ufl.edu

What I would do is change line 0:
0 GOTO [LINE AFTER ALL OTHER LINES]

Then put in the following program.
(At that LINE, I will call it 10000)
10000 ?CHR$(4);"OPEN ";FILENAME$
10100 ?CHR$(4);"WRITE ";FILENAME$
10200 LIST 1-[LAST LINE IN PROGRAM]
10300 ?CHR$(4);"CLOSE ";FILENAME$
10400 END

Be sure you have FILENAME$ equal to a valid filename, (Don't use a variable,
just put something in.) Then you will have a text file which you can import
into AppleWorks, Proterm, or others.

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