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From: randy@athena.mit.edu (Randall W Winchester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Convertion from runnable-BASIC to text-BASIC
Keywords: CSDOS
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Date: 15 Oct 90 16:45:39 GMT
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Scott,

If you're doing your work on the C128, I suggest you boot up CS-DOS
for your BASIC programming sessions.  I've had CS-DOS for some time
now, but only just started to use it while programming in BASIC.

In addition to some excellent features, such as forward and backward
scrolling of program listings, and commands to find and change strings
in a program, the CS-DOS shell handles the text-BASIC <->
runnable-BASIC problem with minimal fuss.

To send a program listing to a disk file, simply load the program,
then type:

list > file.lst

To tokenize a program listing back into a runnable BASIC program, just
type:

exec file.lst

Exec will read the file line by line and try to execute it, but since
the lines have line numbers it enters them as program lines.  If you
do a list, you'll see the program in memory ready to run.

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