[Coco] CoCo BASIC tokenizer

[tim lindner]

Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:


> Does anyone know if there's a 32-bit 80x86 command-line tool for 

> converting ASCII BASIC listings into tokenized format... for the CoCo

> 1,2,3 ?  I know that decb.exe can  do this, but not without putting 

> the source file onto a virtual disk at the same time as far as I 

> know.


Did you try it?

DECB works here in *nix land (Mac OS X) the way you want.

g4:~ tlindner$ cat BASIC.TXT 
10 PRINT "HELLO "
20 ? "WORLD"
30 GOTO 30
g4:~ tlindner$ decb copy -t BASIC.TXT BASIC.BAS
g4:~ tlindner$ decb dump BASIC.BAS


  Addr     0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F 0 2 4 6 8 A C E
--------  ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----------------
00000000  260d 000a 8720 2248 454c 4c4f 2022 0026 &.... "HELLO ".&
00000010  1b00 1487 2022 574f 524c 4422 0026 2500 .... "WORLD".&%.
00000020  1e81 a520 3330 0000 00                  ..% 30...

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tim lindner
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