Date   : Mon, 07 Oct 1985 13:15:00 EDT
From   : Kushall.henr@Xerox.ARPA
Subject: Re: Wanted: Screen editor for CP/M on the C64.

David:

To the best of my knowledge there is nothing unique about .ASM and .TXT
files, that is they are sequential ASCII text files. Using the
TURBO-PASCAL etitor you can give a file any name and extension that is a
legal CP/M file name. Thus you should be able te create and edit .ASM
and .TXT files with out any problems. In fact the TURBO editor can make
a file of the type NAME.COM but CP/M won't like it! The only restriction
is the file size is <62K (the manual says 64K) and the file must fit in
available memory, thus on CP/M 80 systems the file size will be much
less than 62K by the size of TURBO and the resident CP/M RAM space.

When you do a save from the TURBO editor the existing file NAME.EXT is
renamed NAME.BAK and a new NAME.EXT file is created.

Ed Kushall