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From: mat@emcard.UUCP (Mat Waites)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: How to convert text files to BASIC executables?
Message-ID: <5271@emcard.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 88 17:37:44 GMT
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Reply-To: mat@emcard.UUCP (Mat Waites)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Emory University Cardiac Data Bank
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Keywords: BASIC, text-to-executable


Commodore doesn't supply anything to do this...

Transactor had a program to do it quite a while back
(1-1/2 to 2 yrs) called STP (source to program)

You can also do it in basic, very slowly.
Write with wery large line numbers so as not to conflict
with your program for conversion. e.g.

50000 open file holding program
50010 get a line
50020 clear screen
50030 print line to screen
50040 print "goto 50010" to screen
50050 poke some carriage returns in the keyboard input queue
50060 set the number of chars in the queue to 2
50070 end

sorry about the pseudo-type code, I'm trying to forget basic.

anyway, the computer is fooled into taking the input
from the screen and tokenizing it into basic.

mat

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