There are tokenise and detokenise programs for DOS, in the Compuserve archive, I think.
On Sun, 24 Jul 2022 at 23:42, John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > Not as far as I know. I think Robert Pigford's program is it. PowerBASIC > is a compiler though so I guess its binaries would run under a Linux DOS > emulator. I've certainly run DOS assemblers like TASM as part of a > GNU/Linux Makefile. > > You would need a tokenizer for each BASIC variant you want to support > (M100/102, 8201A/8300, and maybe t200?) > > The ROM of each machine is of course already capable of doing it properly > by definition via LOAD/CLOAD. So emulators effectively support tokenization > as well. VirtualT is fully scriptable over telnet/socket. > > For myself I just use my laptop or emulator to created tokenized files. > > One note... there are valid, specially constructed BA files that do not > fully LIST, and are not convertible to ASCII BASIC text and back again, > with high numbered lines and/or machine language embedded in it. To create > such files goes beyond simple tokenization, but it may be useful and > interesting to create advanced special BA binary file generators. Most such > files require special measures to create. > > -- John. >
