We have enough trouble already with that whole text/basic, .DO .BA thing without hiding it from people.
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 15:06, John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 2:55 PM Ken Pettit <petti...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 1/9/20 2:35 PM, Peter Vollan wrote: >> > I just noticed that VT has an option to "Save basic as ASCII", so not >> > only with it load a .BA files that is really a text file, but it will >> > save it back to text so that you can read and edit it. Virtual T is >> > teaching us bad habits! >> >> >> Hmm, what's that saying? Oh yeah, "Guns don't kill people, PEOPLE kill >> people". Don't go blaming the tool!!! :) LOL >> >> Ken > > > Yep. > > TIMTOWTDI > > The problem is there a lot of files misnamed .BA even on Club100. > > You could do what you did and fix the tokenization and "just work". > You could just give the user an error and refuse to load the file > You could prompt the user "This looks like a text file not a tokenized BA > file. Would you like me to fix it for you? Yes/Cancel" > You could just mention to the user "This is a text file. Automatically > tokenizing to BA format." > You could change the extension to DO and create it in the file system that > way. > > All have arguments in their favor. > > I probably would have just fixed the extension and any characters that might > corrupt the RAM file system. > > -- John.
