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ÿd Ù short exercise n Ù program date Feb
28,2005 ä "
" ü NME ç "Ed Kellner"
DDT ç "02/28/05" ,  "" NME, DDT,"" iª
"
"
This is the way the code of a BASIC program
looks, when opened in NOTEPAD. The code is in a
condensed form.
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• We want a method to be able to save the program
  code so we can look at it using a standard, ASCII
  text editor.

100 ' short exercise 110 ' program date Feb
28,2005 130 PRINT "
" 140 NME "Ed Kellner" 150
DDT "02/28/05" 160 PRINT "" NME,
DDT,"" 170 PRINT "
"
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• Saving program code from a BASIC editor

SAVElabx

• To save program code is ASCII format, we need
  to tell the BASIC editor to convert it to ASCII
  at the SAVE command

SAVEltfile name.extgt, a ? a means convert to
ASCII character SAVElabx.bas,a
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• When using a text editor for the code, changes
  made to the text version are NOT automatically
  saved to the BASIC editor.
• You must LOAD the new version into BASIC to test
  it.

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• Opening the code in NOTEPAD (do not use WORD,
  WORDSTAR, or even WORDPAD. These to do not
  always save documents in pure ASCII text format.

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