[Coco] Coco BASIC files

[Neil Morrison]

When programs are run on older versions of Basic as used in the Coco
they are tokenised to save space and increase speed. For certain
reasons to do with transfers and merging they can be saved in the
ASCII form, as they would be if printed (LLIST).

FM error indicates that the files are corrupt somehow. I usually use
Vern Buerg's LIST program to view them in such cases.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <arikboke at yahoo.com>


> Folks,
>
> Some please explain to me why BASIC comes in 'BASIC binary" and
'BASIC ascii'.
> Are not BASIC sources supposed to be .TXT files?  Also, when placed
onto
> virtual diskettes via IMGTOOL in MESS, often times I am unable to
access said
> files (neither ASCII nor binary).  I keep getting "FM? ERROR ..."
or some
> variants.  Have they become corrupt?
>
> Sincerely,
> David