GUIDO@FSU.BITNET (---------the sacred personified---------) (11/25/88)
to the person who wanted to know about msb, lsb, etc., it might help you to purchase a IIgs specific or 65816 programming book because it seems that no-one really knows what the heck they are talking about. I have a firm grasp on the concept of high/low order bits/nibbles/bytes/words, but I would have a tough time explaining it to you as do others on this digest...by teaching yourself, you will always know although like us, you wont be able to explain it to anyone else...hope that helps guido of reality 101
STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) (07/22/89)
I am trying to transfer data from an text file (created via Appleworks) to a file for use in BusinessWorks, which denotes the end of a field by setting the MSB of the last character. Applesoft seems to automatically turn off the MSB. Is there any easy way of bypassing that? (It's a quick and dirty problem and I hate to get involved with Assembler for it.) Alan H. Stein | stein@uconnvm.bitnet Department of Mathematics | stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu University of Connecticut | ...psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN 32 Hillside Avenue | Waterbury, CT 06710 | Compu$erve 71545,1500 (203) 757-1231 | GEnie ah.stein
JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook) (07/24/89)
> I am trying to transfer data from an text file (created via Appleworks) > to a file for use in BusinessWorks, which denotes the end of a field > by setting the MSB of the last character. Applesoft seems to automatically > turn off the MSB. Is there any easy way of bypassing that? > It seems to me that you could use the Block Warden program from ProSel to zap the byte. ==================================================================== J. Douglas Ashbrook (301) 496-5181 BITNET: JDA@NIHCU <-- preferred address INTERNET: JDA@CU.NIH.GOV or jda%nihcu.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu National Institutes of Health, Computer Center, Bethesda, MD 20892 -+- Remember. If some weirdo in a blue suit offers you some MS-DOS, JUST SAY NO!
dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (07/25/89)
In article <8907212219.aa03333@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) writes: > I am trying to transfer data from an text file (created via Appleworks) >to a file for use in BusinessWorks, which denotes the end of a field >by setting the MSB of the last character. Applesoft seems to automatically >turn off the MSB. Is there any easy way of bypassing that? Since you don't want to use assembly, the only thing I can think of is using BSAVE to save into the file. You can POKE the value you want somewhere (like 768) and BSAVE it into your file using ,Bxxx,A768,L1. You'll probably be able to do that only with the file closed. You may want to do all the output to the file this way, since you'd have to keep re-opening the file to output more text to it. --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.