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From: mwilson@crash.CTS.COM (Marc Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: SEQ -> PRG
Message-ID: <1680@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 13:29:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: crash.1680
Posted: Wed Sep  9 13:29:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 00:48:18 EDT
References: <5237@j.cc.purdue.edu> <669@uokmax.UUCP> <741@csun.UUCP>
Reply-To: mwilson@crash.CTS.COM (Marc Wilson)
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In article <741@csun.UUCP> aeusejxn@csun.UUCP (Joachim Nave) writes:
>In article <669@uokmax.UUCP> rufsmith@uokmax.UUCP (Random of Amber) writes:
>>In response to Jeff Wieland's question about SEQ-PRG conversion:
>>
>>.......  Sorry, but the only thing that comes
>>to mind is for you to print out the file (if you have a printer)
>>and type it in by hand.  I should also point out that a program
>>written on the IBM will very likely not work on the Commodore.
>>
>
>NOOOOOOOOO!
>Please dont waste your time typing in the prgram again. All you have to 
>do is change one byte in the directory from 82 to 81 (hex).

     This will do no good at all.  The only change will be in the directory
entry, not in the file itself.  CBM DOS treats SEQ, PRG, and USR files
identically.

     There are several programs in the public domain that accomplish the
task.  Most of them sit up in the $C000 block and mess with the ROM so
that you can modify the program in memory without having BASIC close
your disk files all the time.  There's also a simple way to do it
with an OPEN and two POKEs from the interpreter itself, but I dunno
what it is.  Look in one of the volumes Compute! Books has put out.

>It takes only a few seconds to change it!!!

     Even a few seconds wasted is still a waste worth avoiding.

>Joachim Nave, CSU Northridge, Computer Science Department 
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