Date   : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:23:43 GMT
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: Spitting expletives

Rick Murray wrote:
> J.G.Harston wrote:
> > ".bbc" is tokenised BBC BASIC stored in Russell format
> 
> Russell format? Don't you mean Wilson format? Or is the Windows

Russell format is:
{<length><num lo><num hi><contents><cr>} <00><ff><ff>
File extension ".bbc", RISC OS filetype &1C7, "Basic8"

Acorn/Wilson format is:
{<cr><num hi><num lo><length><contents>} <cr><ff>
File extension ".", RISC OS filetype &FFB, "BASIC".

Has been since 1982.

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