Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!julian!uwovax!heinicke
From: heinicke@uwovax.uwo.cdn
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: How to convert text files to BASIC executables?
Message-ID: <245@uwovax.uwo.cdn>
Date: 16 Apr 88 16:44:14 GMT
References: <7089@drutx.ATT.COM>
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Organisation: University of Western Ontario, Canada

In article <7089@drutx.ATT.COM>, csr@drutx.ATT.COM (cd) writes:
> 
>   Is there some way on a C64 to convert a text file to a loadable BASIC
> file.  Two examples of why I need to do this are:
>   - I have a "listing" on diskette, but not the executable
>   - I want one BASIC program to write another BASIC program
> I readily admit ignorance about the C64, but can't find anything in the
> documentation about how to do what i want.
> 
One way to accomplish the first objective is described on page 159-160
of the June 1982 issue of COMPUTE!. The procedure given there is for a
PET and a VIC-20, and some of the POKES may have to be changed, but 
a glance at the Programmer's Reference Manuals for (say) VIC & C-64
should reveal what changes to make.

Probably a local Commodore Users Group could help, too.