HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Subject: Re: GCC 2.3.2 compile problem on 3B2/400
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 04:10:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.214904.107@serveme.chi.il.us> greg@serveme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) writes:
> In article <1992Dec28.040206.24732@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> pete@othello.dartmouth.edu (Pete Schmitt) writes:
> >[....]
> >How can I fix this?
> 
> I doubt this is the optimal fix, but I went through the source
> and changed all references to index()/rindex() to strchr()/strrchr()

Geez guy's -- what a waste of time, energy, etc.; as well as being a
potential source of ugly errors....

Haven't you ever heard of "#define"??????

I.e.:

	#ifdef HAVE_STRCHR
	# define index	strchr
	# define rindex	strrchr
	#endif

Or:

	cc ... -Dindex=strchr -Drindex=strrchr ...

(as appropriate -- i.e. only use the former if there's already a
global configuration header that you're expected to modify....)
-- 
						Greg A. Woods

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: sourada@iastate.edu (Steven D Ourada)
Subject: Re: Kermit-65 source code
Keywords: KERMIT, UNARC, huge, VT100, Speedscript, Catch-22
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:20:25 GMT

In <1992Dec22.145256.8122@merk.com> winston@merk.com (Winston Smith) writes:

(I thought I'd follow-up to the group just because this might be interesting
to others...)

>I performed an FTP request (called a "get" I believe?) of the KERMIT-65
>source code.  The good news is that the file was delivered to the
>requesting UNIX machine.  The bad news is that the file was delivered in
>an "ARC" format as one large file of over eight hundred double-density
>sectors!  What the heck am I supposed to do with this?!?? 
[...]
>     Needless to say, I am placed in a "Catch-22" situation.  The KERMIT-65
>source files are --NOT-- in an ATARI 8-BIT format, but in some text format
>too large to be contained on an ATARI 8-BIT drive.  I can not successfully
>download this humongous file to an ATARI 8-BIT and then UNARC it.  Is there
>some way that I can UNARC this behemoth on a UNIX system?  I know that UNIX
>uses COMPRESS, TAR, and ZOO, but I do not believe that I have seen ARC on a
>UNIX box before.
[...]
>Does anyone out there have any ideas how to solve this problem?  Thanks.
> 

Kermit 65 was written and assembled on another system (an ST, I believe). The
ST was of course able to handle the size of the file, but it's kind of
impossible to work with on the 8bits. If you're only interested in reading
some of the code, you just need to unARC it on another system (yep, there
are Unix-compatible ARC's out there...), then either look at it on that system
or break it up for use on the 8bit.

If you want to change the code and reassemble it, your best bet it to use 
another system and a cross-assembler. (Atari's Madmac assembler for the ST
will assemble 6502) If you can't get ahold of another system and assembler,
you will have to be very patient and inventive :-)

                  Later,
                    Steven Ourada
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bbs@neb (BBS System 801-572-4969)
Subject: K-Products interface (formerly Supra)
Organization: Nebula - Public Access Unix/bbs SLC Ut, USA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:09:45 GMT

J.McWilliams
 
Yeah, theres an article brewing in that information. Guess I should be a
little more hush hush about what I broadcast - as I am loosing a bunch
of potential articles (for AC submission) myself (grin)
 
Got your E-mail, but curious about why you called LD just to leave it
here. You could have left it for me privately via your remote site by
sending to:
 
uplherc.upl.com!neb!bbs!1fa and it will reach me -- others have sent me
grundles of mail..
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From: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Digi-song!!!!
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 21:44:02 PST
Reply-To: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Organization: Indescribable Creations

YAY!  I made a digi-song!!!!  YAY!   I sampled some bits of a song called 
"Knives and Forks" and remixed it all together (that Parrot structuring 
DOES come in handy!) into my own little song.

The demo is called "KNVSFRKS.ARC" (I'll get it to the archives a.s.a.p.) 
and requires an XL/XE OS (as it uses TurboBASIC XL.. :(  enough for 
protecting my software! ;)  )  (although it is compiled).

The arc consists of only three files:  RUNTIME.OBJ (hmm..couldn't be the 
TBXL runtime pkg, could it!?), KNVSFRKS.DIG (the samples-file), and 
"AUTORUN.CBT" (the compiled TBXL)...

just run RUNTIME.OBJ from DOS and have AUTORUN.CTB on D1:, and 
KNVSFRKS.DIG on the default drive (grrr...Runtime loads AUTORUN.CTB from 
D1:, while my program loads the .DIG from D:, which means it can be put 
wherever you want...  which is good.. ie, use a ramdisk or HD or 
something :)  )



well... have fun..  it's my first try, give me a break if you hate it! ;)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bbs@neb (BBS System 801-572-4969)
Subject: Z*mag
Organization: Nebula - Public Access Unix/bbs SLC Ut, USA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:03:23 GMT

Per an article in Decembers Current Notes magazine, Ron Kovacs is
looking for someone to take over Z*mag, since all his time is now
dedicated to his new publication (from Atari Corp.)
 
Has anyone else BUT ME contacted Ron regarding assumption of that
duty?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bbs@neb (BBS System 801-572-4969)
Subject: Re: 8" disk drives
Organization: Nebula - Public Access Unix/bbs SLC Ut, USA
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 16:23:51 GMT

Do you know of any other way to run an 8" disk drive OTHER than an
ATR8000 or Black Box? Is it somehow possible on an MIO?
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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
Date: Monday, 21 Dec 1992 11:26:59 EST
From: Jeff McWilliams <JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Where is get Action! ?


Unfortunately, unless you can find a used copy, you're out of luck.
About 15 months ago, ICD said it would no longer sell products for the
Atari 8 bit line, and Action! was one of the products that they sold,
having bought it from OSS when they went out of business.

Jeff McWilliams
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bbs@neb (BBS System 801-572-4969)
Subject: Re: * * Wanted: Alternate Reality * *
Organization: Nebula - Public Access Unix/bbs SLC Ut, USA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:02:24 GMT

I have an original copy of Alternate Reality (both City and Dungeon). I
have docs and full maps too.
 
What do you offer - if you have interest?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: ab588@yfn.ysu.edu (joseph sabatino)
Subject: Re: 8" disk drives
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:51:24 GMT


The ATR8000 is the set up to control the 8" disks...Sparta X will
format them to 1025024 bytes for 77 tracks double sided.
-- 
Joe Sabatino-->ab588@yfn.ysu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: robert@harlqn.co.uk (Robert Butterworth)
Subject: Where is get Action! ?
Organization: Harlequin Limited, Cambridge, England
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:58:56 GMT


Where can I get hold of Action! ?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bbs@neb (BBS System 801-572-4969)
Subject: Re: Need Action! help
Organization: Nebula - Public Access Unix/bbs SLC Ut, USA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:07:24 GMT

PhBill:
 
True, someone could sneak a floppy drive and SIO cable into my house,
buts its highly unlikely! (grin)
 
I'm more interested in keeping friends and house guests from accessing
my two HD driven 8bit systems. 
 
Oh well, I'm working on an Action! program right now that will check for
passwords, but since I'm only now learning Action!, I'm a bit slow and
confused (when it comes to all the procs, byte, card, etc.
statements)
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Mail Path: uplherc.upl.com!neb!bbs!1fa
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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 10:32:05 CST
From: Marc Sasiadek <U24226@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: GCP(Anyone remember it?)

Hi!!!
Does anyone remember a really neat telecommunication service called
Games Computers Play? It was available for the 8-bitters and then later
for the ST around 1985-1986. Does anyone remember CyberTank? I kind of miss
playing it, so I was thinking about writing a one player version of it for
Windows. I would like to use the original Cybertank map. Does anyone
have any information on it? I have the old documentation, but I was wondering
if the map was on a file that you got from GCP. Does anyone know what
the map file format might be or what the name of the file might be? Or was
the map on GCP's minicomputers? Thanks in advance.
*****************************************
*  Marc Sasiadek(u24226@uicvm.uic.edu)  *
*  University of Illinois at Chicago    *
*         College of Pharmacy           *
*****************************************
From: mppi76@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Harald Schoenfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Quick
Date: 2 Jan 1993 16:23:22 +0100
Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
NNTP-Posting-Host: cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de

Dag.Hugdahl@tdkt.kksys.com (Dag Hugdahl) writes:
>I have been reading with interest your comments about Quick - "that great
>new language from Germany" - but since I have just recently begun reading this
>conference, what can you tell me about it?  (Where to get it, etc.)

That is a very good question!!!

I am happy to tell you, that QUICK will be available soon including an
english manual. 

What is QUICK - in short:

QUICK is a completely software-based compiler language that is almost
as fast as assembler and also almost as easy to use as BASIC.

QUICK comes with some unique features like:
- Build-in Mouse-routines (for ST mouse)
-  " player-missile commands
-  " routines for playing digitized sounds
-  " routines to move and copy high-res graphics
- Automatic use of VBI and DLI!
- Subroutines, local variables, INLINE mc-code 
- Libraries

As I'm one of the programmers of QUICK, I can answer to any other
questions you have. There will be an announce, as soon as the english
version in ready.

There are some different places to get QUICK - as soon as the english
version is ready. At the moment you can get the german version from:

PPP
Postfach 1640
7518 Bretten
Germany
-- 
Harald Schoenfeld (hs@cnve.rrze.uni-erlangen.dbp.de)
From: Rick_Michael_Cortese@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: My ego VS UUE
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 13:35:39 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

4 DIM BASE(4),TRANS(4)
5 DIM SUM(3),BIN(3):X=1
6 BIN(0)=1:BIN(1)=256:BIN(2)=65536
7 BIN(3)=16777216
8 BASE(0)=1
9 BASE(1)=85
10 BASE(2)=7225
11 BASE(3)=614125
12 BASE(4)=52200625
14 CLOSE #3:OPEN #3,4,0,"D9:PRETTY.COM"
15 CLOSE #4:OPEN #4,8,0,"D9:OUT.DAT"
16 ? #4;".BEGIN";:PUT #4,13:PUT #4,10
20 TRAP 90
30 FOR N=0 TO 3:SUM(N)=0:NEXT N
35 SUM=0:FOR N=0 TO 3
40 GET #3,A
50 SUM(N)=A*BIN(N):? A,;
60 NEXT N
65 FOR N=0 TO 3:SUM=SUM+SUM(N):NEXT N
66 ? SUM:GOSUB 100
70 GOTO 30
90 FOR N=0 TO 3:SUM=SUM+SUM(N):NEXT N
93 GOSUB 100:PUT #4,13:PUT #4,10:? #4;".END";:PUT #4,13:PUT #4,10
95 CLOSE #3:CLOSE #4:END
100 REM **TRANSLATION TO 5 CHARACTORS**
121 FOR N=0 TO 4:TRANS(N)=0:NEXT N
140 TRANS(4)=INT(SUM/BASE(4)):SUM=SUM-BASE(4)*TRANS(4)
141 TRANS(3)=INT(SUM/BASE(3)):SUM=SUM-BASE(3)*TRANS(3)
142 TRANS(2)=INT(SUM/BASE(2)):SUM=SUM-BASE(2)*TRANS(2)
143 TRANS(1)=INT(SUM/BASE(1)):SUM=SUM-BASE(1)*TRANS(1)
144 TRANS(0)=INT(SUM/BASE(0)):SUM=SUM-BASE(0)*TRANS(0)
200 FOR N=4 TO 0 STEP -1
205 C=TRANS(N)+33
210 ? CHR$(C);
220 ? #4;CHR$(C);:NEXT N:?
225 REM IF YOU NEED LF
230 X=X+1:IF X=8 THEN PUT #4,13:PUT #4,10:X=1
240 RETURN
tart the "CAPTURE" immediately. I had to send it one
Atari <CR> to get it to save the first part of the file.  I'm
not sur
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: bbs@neb (BBS System 801-572-4969)
Subject: Re: PABQWK
Organization: Nebula - Public Access Unix/bbs SLC Ut, USA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:01:49 GMT

Dennis:
 
Pab Sungenis just uploaded his latest revison of Pabqwk to me on
GEnie. 
 
Will report back here once I download it and let everyone know what
changes have been implemented.
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From: ak354@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dennis Mc Guire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Parallel Printer Interface Info
Date: 27 Dec 1992 17:50:33 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


  I have a P:R: Connection for sale.  It is brand new and unused.
I'm selling it for $40 plus shipping.  Send check or money order
to: Dennis McGuire 3215 West 25th St. Erie, PA 16506.
From: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: vblitz demo
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 12:09:01 PST
Reply-To: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Organization: Indescribable Creations

re: woolley's upgrade being Antic XE banking compatible..


well..if so, not the one HE gave me!  anyways, like I said, I made a 
little splitter (takes the Vblitz demo and stores the graphics as 
seperate files on the ram disk) then a viewer (which is probably quite 
slow, but oh well..I got the effect....NICE demo)



who rendered that demo?!  where DID it come from! (other than that Atari 
Faire....)

coolness

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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
Date: Wednesday, 23 Dec 1992 11:27:41 EST
From: Jeff McWilliams <JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: vblitz demo

Ahh, Gee, Bill, you didn't know that most 256K+ upgrades have that problem?
Very few of the upgrades are 100% 130XE compatible as far as Antic Banking
goes.  THe CSS upgrade might be one of them, I think the Woolley 1200XL
upgrade is another.

Jeff
From: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: My ego VS UUE
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 21:16:56 PST
Reply-To: phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Organization: Indescribable Creations

Hey Rick, what did you try to upload those files with?  I have trouble 
uploading to this BBS's editor (using the editor's "upload" command) with 
BobTerm...  hmm!  Maybe it's a BobTerm bug!? :)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable)
Subject: Re: FORTH-83 for Atari 8-bit; anyone interested?
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 01:21:43 GMT

A further comment about Forth; some it's concepts have been incorporated into
commercial software and even printer ROMs.  PostScript uses a Forth model, for
instance.  A PC-based laboratory data capture and manipulation program called
Assyst uses a Forth model (RPN and a stack) as well; so does the CyberMate
animation system on the ST.  The time I spent learning Forth was not wasted...


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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
Date: Wednesday, 23 Dec 1992 11:23:13 EST
From: Jeff McWilliams <JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: SPARTADOS

Gee James, thanks for the news on K-products.  I smell an article
brewing.  Yes no?  (grin)

Jeff  McWilliams
From: jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: FORTH-83 for Atari 8-bit; anyone interested?
Date: 31 Dec 92 13:30:45 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

Forth as it exists today is a combination of a threaded interpretive internal
structure with reverse polish notation.

It's a whiz kid at aiding the rapid development of just about anything with
its strength being things like device drivers (the SparcStation boot rom is
a Forth interpreter). Since it's a structured language, however, it is suited
for more general purposes as well.

Its RPN version of 1 * 2 + 3 looks like 1 2 * 3 +; if(condition) then a else b
looks like: condition if a else b then. The reason for the basackward appearance
is because Forth uses a stack for all parameter passing. The would-be Forther
would find him/herself immersed in dealing with the stack. If you plan on
learning assembly language, you must deal with its return stack (since being
careless when dealing with it almost always results in a crash). In addition,
most Forth systems have an assembler (which is also reverse polish: LDA #4
looks like 4 # LDA,)

Forth also has a dictionary structure which holds forth 'words', the operations
of Forth. You can add to the dictionary and use your new word immediately; it's
now part of the language. The definitions of most Forth words are sequences of
Forth words; in fact, 80-90% of most Forth systems is written in Forth itself.

Since you can make a new word and test it immediately at the keyboard,
development is quick. Forth isn't like most languages; definitely doesn't
look like most anything normal and Forth has been spoken of as the most
unreadible languages in the universe, surpassing even C! However, like
any other expression, the writer has a chance to write comments so he can
remember what he did 6 months ago (if not just yesterday) and do so in a
readible style.

Forth takes about a month of fairly solid hacking to learn enough of it
to be truely useful. Once at that stage, you can learn the internals of
Forth, concentrating perhaps on how the if, else and then words work or
maybe on its interface to the machine.

In summary, Forth can be a learning experience to make the transition
to assembly programming, a desk calculator (mostly integers), a prototyping
environment (where you can see what your  -  say  -  game  -  will eventually
look like) or a serious development language.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: jjmcwill@mtu.edu (Jeff McWilliams)
Subject: Re: zip/unzipper
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 07:23:14 GMT

In article <5FTcwB2w165w@cyberden.sf.ca.us> phbill@cyberden.sf.ca.us writes:
>
>
>No... you're right.  I just wonder if he's still working on it.  I have 
>a copy, and after I heard (on this net) that he (Bob) didn't want it 
>spread around, I asked the Sysops to delete it, and I haven't ever 
>uploaded it anywhere.  
>
>hmm
>
Well, the interesting thing is, I just saw it on the ICD BBS.

Jeff McWIlliams
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Wind blowing, rustling, chilling
candlelight will soon be flickering
From: winston@merk.com (Winston Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: My ego VS UUE
Keywords: EBCDIC, UUENCODE, translation, cent
Date: 22 Dec 92 14:01:46 GMT
Organization: Technology Partners, Inc.


Rick_Michael_Cortese@cup.portal.com,
on Mon, 21 Dec 92 21:44:55 PST, writes:
 
>> "Hmmmm... It would be a good idea to double check exactly what UUENCODE
does, but I believe it's based on 64 characters." <<
 
     Transferring a text file from a VAX through an IBM mainframe does
strange things to some characters such as:  Vertical Pipe, Backquote,
Brace, IBM Cent Sign, and a few others, due to shifting from the ASCII to
the EBCDIC character sets and then back again.  Would your new UUENCODEr be
able to handle the "special cases", due to "bad network translation"
through a mailer somewhere in the message delivery path?  It's something to
think about (in any event)....
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
From: genoa@athena.mit.edu (Jack Holt)
Subject: Re: 8" disk drives
Organization: Massachusetts Correctional Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:05:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan1.074726.3972@neb> bbs@neb (BBS System 801-572-4969) writes:
>I've recently come into contact with numerous IBM style (old
>mainframe/teletype) 8" disk drive mechanisms (dual drive cases). Are
>these usable with the ATR8000 (or MIO)? If so, what software would/could
>be used to format out those monster disks? I've noticed that the disks
>themselves are notated as: Double sided, double density. Does that
>indicate 360k of storage? I've heard rumors of 1.2meg 8"
>disks/drives. 
> 
>Any information on this project GREATLY appeciated.
>-----
>Posted by BBS User: James King
>Mail Path: uplherc.upl.com!neb!bbs!1fa

I used to work on a CP/M system with 8" drives.  As I recall, they had 
1024 1K sectors, for 1 megabyte of storage.  I also vaguely recall the
ATR8000 as being advertised to work with 8" drives, but I have no personal
experience with it.

--Jack



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From: Rick_Michael_Cortese@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: My ego VS UUE
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 13:36:42 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

1 POKE 766,1:POKE 82,0:GRAPHICS 0
3 REM ** A LITTLE CHEAT FOR NOW **
4 REM **   I'LL FIX IT LATER!   **
5 FSZ=425
10 DIM BASE(4),TRANS(4),A$(128)
20 DIM SUM(4),BIN(3),WRK$(5)
30 BIN(0)=1:BIN(1)=256:BIN(2)=65536
40 BIN(3)=16777216
50 BASE(0)=1
60 BASE(1)=85
70 BASE(2)=7225
80 BASE(3)=614125
90 BASE(4)=52200625
100 CLOSE #3
105 OPEN #3,8,0,"D9:PRETTY.OBJ"
110 CLOSE #4:OPEN #4,4,0,"D9:OUT.DAT"
120 X=0:A$=""
122 GET #4,A:X=X+1:IF A<>13 THEN A$(X,X)=CHR$(A):GOTO 122
124 REM ** SHOULD BE A LINE FEED **
125 GET #4,A
130 IF A$<>".BEGIN" THEN GOTO 120
140 ? A$
150 X=0:A$=""
152 GET #4,A:X=X+1:IF A<>13 THEN A$(X,X)=CHR$(A):GOTO 152
154 REM ** SHOULD BE A LINE FEED **
155 GET #4,A
158 IF A$=".END" THEN GOTO 500
160 CHUNKS=LEN(A$)/5
170 FOR LOOP=0 TO CHUNKS-1
180 WRK$=A$(1+LOOP*5,5+LOOP*5)
187 REM **** SUBTRACT 33 ****
190 FOR N=0 TO 4:OFFSET=ADR(WRK$)+N
200 POKE OFFSET,PEEK(OFFSET)-33
210 NEXT N:? WRK$
215 REM **** CALCULATE VALUE ****
220 FOR N=0 TO 4:SUM(N)=0:NEXT N
230 SUM=0:OFFSET=ADR(WRK$)
235 FOR N=0 TO 4
240 SUM(N)=BASE(4-N)*PEEK(OFFSET+N)
250 NEXT N
260 FOR N=0 TO 4:SUM=SUM+SUM(N):NEXT N
270 ? SUM:GOSUB 320
300 NEXT LOOP
310 GOTO 150
320 REM **TRANSLATION TO 4 CHARACTERS**
330 FOR N=0 TO 3:TRANS(N)=0:NEXT N
340 TRANS(3)=INT(SUM/BIN(3)):SUM=SUM-BIN(3)*TRANS(3)
350 TRANS(2)=INT(SUM/BIN(2)):SUM=SUM-BIN(2)*TRANS(2)
360 TRANS(1)=INT(SUM/BIN(1)):SUM=SUM-BIN(1)*TRANS(1)
370 TRANS(0)=INT(SUM/BIN(0)):SUM=SUM-BIN(0)*TRANS(0)
380 FOR N=0 TO 3
390 PUT #3,TRANS(N)
392 REM **** SLOPPY BUT WORKS ****
395 FSZ=FSZ-1:IF FSZ=0 THEN RETURN
400 ? TRANS(N),
420 NEXT N:RETURN
500 CLOSE #3:CLOSE #4:POKE 766,0
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