BBS: Inland Empire Archive Date: 04-02-93 (23:00) Number: 328 From: VICTOR YIU Refer#: NONE To: ALL Recvd: NO Subj: PostIt! 6.0 5/16 Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
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SUB ExtractFile
SHARED Good$
PRINT
PRINT "Examining "; SourceFile$; "..."
COLOR 7
CLOSE
OPEN SourceFile$ FOR INPUT AS #1 LEN = 4096 ' open file
DO
IF NOT EOF(1) THEN
LINE INPUT #1, A$
ELSE
GOTO ErrorReading
END IF
LOOP WHILE LEFT$(A$, 13) <> "~PostIt! 6.0~" 'search for header
NewFile$ = MID$(A$, 14)
NxtTilde = INSTR(NewFile$, "~")
IF NxtTilde = 0 THEN GOTO ErrorReading
NewFile$ = LEFT$(NewFile$, NxtTilde - 1) ' get filename
OPEN NewFile$ FOR BINARY AS #2 ' open...
PRINT "Loading "; SourceFile$; "..."
DO
IF EOF(1) THEN GOTO ErrorReading ' end of file already?
LINE INPUT #1, A$ ' get a line
SELECT CASE LEFT$(A$, 1)
CASE "~"
IF NOT QuoteOn THEN
EXIT DO ' end; quit loop
END IF
CASE "a" TO "z", "A" TO "Z", "#", "$", "(" TO "9"
IF NOT QuoteOn THEN
FOR Q = 2 TO 9 ' expand the string
Look$ = MID$(ComprChar$, Q - 1, 1)
S = 1
DO
S = INSTR(S, A$, Look$)
IF S THEN
A$ = LEFT$(A$, S - 1) + STRING$(Q,_
97) + MID$(A$, S + 1)
END IF
LOOP WHILE S
NEXT
Dat$ = Dat$ + RTRIM$(A$) ' nope, collect dust
END IF
CASE "'"
QuoteOn = NOT QuoteOn
CASE ELSE ' just comments or junk
END SELECT
LOOP
Siz = VAL(MID$(A$, 2)) ' extract size of file
NxtNum = INSTR(2, A$, "~") ' look 4 next ~ occurence
IF NxtNum = 0 THEN GOTO ErrorReading ' none? Error!
CheckVal = VAL(MID$(A$, NxtNum + 1)) ' get checkval
PRINT "Decoding "; SourceFile$; "..."
PRINT STRING$(50, 178); ' print initial bar
LOCATE , , 0
DIM P(6)
FOR P = 0 TO 6: P(P) = 2 ^ P: NEXT
n = Siz
k = 255
V! = 50 / n
FOR A = 1 TO n ' decode file
IF L = 0 THEN
GOSUB G
L = 6
LOCATE , 1
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