cannot put BAS files in disk images about applecommander HOT 4 CLOSED

You're giving AppleCommander a bit too much credit. ;-)

The file in Linux is a text file. When you placed it onto the disk, ac does not do any processing of it and essentially shoved a text file into what ProDOS thinks is a BAS program.

When the -e flag is used, ac tries to export the program in a sensible manner. For BAS it decodes the tokenized Applesoft program and writes it as text on your machine. Since it was already text, it (obviously) doesn't detokenize very well.

When the -g flag is used, ac just pulls the raw data and writes it to your machine as-is.

I recall seeing or reading about a program that can tokenize a text file, but I'm drawing a blank, unfortunately... if I can recall/find it in the next few days, I'll post a link!

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both "CiderPress" (https://github.com/fadden/ciderpress/) and "diskm8" (https://github.com/paleotronic/diskm8/) have an "import BAS from" text-tokenizing feature.

i think it would be cool to have it implemented in AppleCommander as CiderPress is GUI based and Windows-only (but works ok under wine) and diskm8 has its own - imvho serious - issues (see https://github.com/paleotronic/diskm8/issues) as of now.

can you flag this issue as a feature request ?

thank you! :-)

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Absolutely! Is this something you wanted to work on yourself? I'm more than willing to accept submissions.

I'm thinking that as a first stab, the assumption is that the AppleSoft code is "well formed". We don't need to mash our code into a single line any more, so spaces (literally!) aren't at a premium any more. I see that there are notes about special handling for AT/ATN (and more, I think). Requiring spaces between stuff would probably greatly simplify the effort.

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I did commit some prototype code the repository. General usage pattern is with the -bas flag following the same pattern that ac uses. I have done nothing with the GUI at this time ... not really certain it's needed there (thinking this is more a for development and likely ending up in scripts).

Example run:

$ cat test.bas | ac -bas dos.dsk test

Uploaded a Beta copy. Note that I had to GZip it to make GitHub happy!

• AppleCommander-ac-1.5.0-BETA.jar.gz

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