::: Area #157 (csap)
Message: #40397 (Read 1 time, has 0 replies, 1532 bytes)
Date   : Wed Mar 10 08:47:49 1999
From   : Jonathan Graham Harston of fidonet#2:254/27
Subject: Subject: Nimbus tokenised BASIC - nonstandard! (reply to #40297)

> Message-ID: <9aafa6dd48%trill@netbook.demon.co.uk>

trill@netbook.demon.co.uk wrote:
> Does anyone know about the tokenised BASIC format used by RM's
> implementation of BBC BASIC for their Nimbus machines? I've got a file,
> [snip] of the program is there, but the line numbers are badly messed up.

BBCBasic(86) and BBCBasic(80) use a different format to save Basic files.
BBCBasic(65), (32) and (ARM) use:
	  <cr><hi><lo><len><text><cr>......<cr><ff>
but BBCBasic(86) and (80) use:
	  <len><hi><lo><text><cr>......<cr><00><ff><ff>

You need to use a utility to convert between the formats.  There's my
!BasConv on Arcade BBS [File Area 53 (Apps) name: BasConv], also
accessible by internet at weekends.

I've also got some half-working command-line utilities to do the same on
BBCBasic(86),(80),(65),(32) and (ARM).  I'll try and get around to fixing
them and posting them somewhere.  You use them something like:
	  FConv BBC:name -to DOS:name

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jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk - Running on BBCs & Masters with SJ MDFS FileServer
Z80+6502/CoPro+Tubes/Econet+SJ -- http://www.libdems.force9.co.uk/usr/jgh/
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      pressed my Ctrl-Alt-Delete keys...
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