Running Old DOS Programs on PB

[John Romano]

Trouble with running my old DOS programs,I seem to be able to
load but can't run.
I have an old dir named John with several files
I will bring up the main screen and then delete the start-up
screen,per page 11 Users Manual.
Click on FILE Click on CHG DIR a drop down menu appears,
I type [\John] [ENTER] go back to and click on FILE again
click on OPEN yieldind all the files in John including
PSC-TRAN. I either type in PSC-TRAN or double click on the name
and only the first two lines appear in succession in a scrambled
mess no further action is possible


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[Mel Bishop]

The file was probably saved as tokenized. Bring it back up in
BASICA or whatever you were using and save it as a straight
ASCII file. It's been so long that I can't remember how to do
that but......


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[Buck Huffman]

In Basica/GWBasic (replace PROGRAM.BAS with the name of your
program) type:

LOAD"PROGRAM.BAS
SAVE"PROGRAM.BAS",A

the comma a switch saves your program as ASCII text.


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[Davide Vecchi]

If you don't have GWBASIC / BASICA anymore, you can try the conversion using one of the tools at http://www.powerbasic.com/files/pub/tools/dos/ .

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Davide Vecchi
[email protected]