Date   : Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:03:26 +0100
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: BBC format BASIC files

Rick Murray wrote:
> I would *strongly* advise against using ".bas" if you also have Visual
> Basic installed on your machine; it claims that file type and doesn't
> enjoy tokenised code...

I wrote ".bas" for *text* BASIC program files, ie *not* tokenised files, 
RISC OS filetype &FD1 "BASICtxt", as has been standard amongs 
multituninous varieties of BASIC for decades.

ie,
"fred." would be 0D 00 0A 0B F1 22 41 42 43 44 22 0D FF
"fred.bbc" would be 0B 0A 00 F1 22 41 42 43 44 22 0D 00 FF FF
"fred.bas" would be 31 30 50 52 49 4E 54 22 41 42 43 44 22 (0D or 0D 0A 
or 0A 0D or 0A)

(I've done that in my head, may not be exactly correct)

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