Wow! Thanks. I'll keep this for future reference as I got this
message after I did it the hard way.
In the last few days, I have been trying to find
accessible material, not so much in basic programming as I did a
bunch of that from 1979 until the early eighties in Applesoft
Basic which is extremely similar to GW-Basic and basica but
commands like the ,a flag are exactly what I was looking for but
if you start searching for the basica command set, one tends to
fall down a lot of rabbit holes leading to visual basic and so
forth. I'm not even interested in programming in basic again as
that ship sailed but I would have never figured out that flag of
,a if my life depended on it.
Here's a bit of trivia if anybody wants to grind their
brains a bit. I do know the answer but here it is:
The list of program files on the disk all had normal
dates when they were in unix. After I saved one of them using
the save "progname.bas" ,a operation, the save was perfect but
the date is now December 31, 1969 at 18:00 hours.
I put the floppy in question back on a Linux box and did
ls -lt on the files, expecting to find my newly-saved ASCII file
first.
With that creation date, it is dead last so the date
matters but it's a small issue for the most part.
Hint. If you live in some place other than the
US/Central time zone, your strange date will be different such as
if you live in the UK, your odd date will be 1 January of 1970 at
Midnight.
It's definitely not a "Twilight Zone" event but the first
time you see that, it makes you wonder what's going on.
Again, thanks.
Martin McCormick
Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]> writes:
> No need for any of this. Open up the program in basica. Then type save
> “prog.bas”,a and you get an ascii version of the program saved to
> disk.
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