How do I save a BASIC program in ASCII text form?
The following line added to the front of your Applesoft BASIC program will save it in a Text file named “LISTFILE”. It works in DOS 3.3 or ProDOS. 1 HOME:PRINT CHR$(4)”OPEN LISTFILE”: PRINT CHR$(4)”WRITE LISTFILE”: POKE 33,33: LIST 2,: PRINT CHR$(4)”CLOSE”: END If you have a line 1 which you’d like to leave alone, you can enter the above at Line 0 and change LIST 2, to LIST 1,. POKE 33,33 causes the text display routine to not insert any unneccessary spacing into your BASIC program listing, which cleans up the text file output nicely.
