Date   : Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:14:32 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Spitting expletives

On 26/07/2010 13:25, J.G.Harston wrote:

>> For those using Windows, my ROView software contains a BASIC-to-text
>> filter; it shouldn't be too hard to get Windows to auto-run it once you
>> typed JGH's files as .basic

> File extensions you should use for various BBC BASIC saved files are:

> ".bbc" - Russell format
> ".bas" - Text
> "."    - Acorn format

No, very *BAD* to use *.bas - double click on those, I'll have the fun 
of watching Visual Basic trying to load a tokenised BASIC code. :-)

By giving it a less-standard file extension, *.BAS is for VB, and 
*.basic will auto-convert and load into Notepad.



Best wishes,

Rick.

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