BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 06-30-92 (07:52) Number: 1749
From: MAX VAUGHAN Refer#: NONE
To: JEFF TAYLOR Recvd: NO
Subj: Convert Bascia Files to A Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
>written in MS-DOS 3.3 Basica, to an ASCII text file so
>that it can be read i
>A friend of mine showed me his problem and I could not believe that a file
>written in Basica was incrypted in some way.
The file was saved in binary form, and must be converted back via the
following....don't remember where I got this but this is a very common
problem. I think there was another solution posted in the echo several
weeks ago but this will work also.
How to Unprotect a BASIC program that was saved with the ",P:
First you must create a file to overlay the ,P setting. From the
DOS prompt start up BASICA or BASIC and enter the following BASIC
command:
BSAVE "UN.P",1124,1
This will create a file on your default drive named UN.P
Next LOAD your program that had been saved using ",P. If it was
named MYPROG.BAS the BASIC command would be:
LOAD "MYPROG
Now to use the UN.P file to overlay the protection setting use the
following command:
BLOAD "UN.P",1124
You may now use the LIST, EDIT and SAVE commands as usual.
When saving be sure to save as ASCII-> SAVE "myprog.bas" ,A
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