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Re: .bas to ascii program ???

• Posted by euphoria at carlw.legend.uk.com Jul 18, 2001
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Jerry wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Igor Kachan wrote:
>
> > > Where can I gitta holduv a simple program that
> > > converts a .BAS file to eadable ascii?
> >
> > Just load this unreadable .BAS into QB and
> > Save as ... Text (ascii), not as QB own inner format.
> > There is the option when you save and you
> > can choice.
>
>   I used QBASIC.EXE and it got only garbage from lemonade.bas.  I picked
> up lemonade.bas from some website.  Maybe from a different computer world.
> To hell with it.

Chances are it's been tokenised by some part of the language that created
it. In the Euphoria world we call tokenising 'shrouding' and it comes as a
part of the Registered Edition. It makes for smaller, more secure, files.

Most likely what you have is a GW-Basic program (the PC BASIC before QBASIC
came along). There are (I guess) methods of decrypting your 'garbage' back
into a BASIC program, but that would probably be illegal... The programmer
will have tokenised his code for a reason.

Carl

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