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Advanced Basic - BASICA

2006-11-14T10:48:18-05:00

WOW!! That did it relsoft!! Yo are a life saver!! Thank you so much!

-Ryan

Statistics: Posted by pch4327 — Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:48 am

Advanced Basic - BASICA

2006-11-14T10:34:02-05:00

Press F2

Code:

save "filename.bas", A

As in ASCII
Then you can view it in Notepad

Statistics: Posted by relsoft — Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:34 am

Advanced Basic - BASICA

2006-11-14T09:46:37-05:00

I can open them with notepad, but they are in a cryptic format. The only way that they appear in normal text is when I open them with the BASICA interpreter. I?m really stumped. But it probably doesn?t help that this language was popular when I was like three. Haha..

-Ryan

Statistics: Posted by pch4327 — Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:46 am

Advanced Basic - BASICA

2006-11-14T09:39:46-05:00

Are those .BAS files in normal text mode? If so, use notepad etc. to edit them.

Statistics: Posted by bungytheworm — Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:39 am

Advanced Basic - BASICA

2006-11-14T09:12:53-05:00

Hey Guys,

Thanks for your responses, but the file permissions are not the issue. I just checked them out. I even resorted to tying to use the original Toshiba T1200 DOS machine, because I thought that I may be a DOS version issue. But no luck! I think that I am missing a step along the way so that my changes will be taken into effect. If any more ideas at all come up please do not hesitate to post! Thanks again!

-Ryan

Statistics: Posted by pch4327 — Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:12 am

Advanced Basic - BASICA

2006-11-13T20:34:09-05:00

I think E.K. nailed it...the .bas file is probably read only.

1. go to Windows File Explorer.

2. go to the folder where your bas file is.

3. right click on the .bas file and select the properties option.

4. you should see the "read only" attribute checkbox and it is probably checked. just uncheck it and clock ok.

And you should be good to go.

Statistics: Posted by MystikShadows — Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:34 pm

Advanced Basic - BASICA

2006-11-13T17:32:34-05:00

I bet you have some demo version of it or something.
Do changes on notepad (or similar) and try then.

[edit]
Or are those files write protected maybe?

Statistics: Posted by bungytheworm — Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:32 pm

Advanced Basic - BASICA

2006-11-13T10:58:14-05:00

Hello All,

I have no prior experience with basic at all, other than the newer technologies like vb.NET and so on. I am presented with a project that is written in Advanced BASIC-86 Version 3.30.0JS. In the DOS based interpreter I can load the .BAS file fine, but when I make modifications to the code they will not save when I run it. Even if I save the instance of the file that I?m working on as a new file it will not save the changes and resort back to the original file. Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you in advance!

-Ryan

Statistics: Posted by pch4327 — Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:58 am