Ted,

In BASIC try this to avoid truncation and wrapping.

Build Wide;Rec=-256,,,ascii
Basic
get program
list,out=wide,recsize=256

This won't wrap until the line is longer than 256 characters. You can
try wider if you need to.

John Zoltak
North American Mfg Co
Cleveland Ohio


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Ashton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 5:05 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] BASIC files
>
>
> This is to save more folks from advising me to get into the
> BASIC subsystem and
> list the source out to a flat file.  I already know how to do
> that and will if
> I must, but you lose data that way.  BASIC's list facility
> wants to do its own
> formatting.  It will truncate REMarks which are *not*
> truncated in the actual
> source file and will wrap lines gratuitiously.  That's why
> I'm wanting to read
> the file itself.
>
> Thanks,
> Ted
> --
> Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern
> Adventist University
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