On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 2:55 PM Ken Pettit <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/9/20 2:35 PM, Peter Vollan wrote: > > I just noticed that VT has an option to "Save basic as ASCII", so not > > only with it load a .BA files that is really a text file, but it will > > save it back to text so that you can read and edit it. Virtual T is > > teaching us bad habits! > > > Hmm, what's that saying? Oh yeah, "Guns don't kill people, PEOPLE kill > people". Don't go blaming the tool!!! :) LOL > > Ken > Yep. TIMTOWTDI The problem is there a lot of files misnamed .BA even on Club100. You could do what you did and fix the tokenization and "just work". You could just give the user an error and refuse to load the file You could prompt the user "This looks like a text file not a tokenized BA file. Would you like me to fix it for you? Yes/Cancel" You could just mention to the user "This is a text file. Automatically tokenizing to BA format." You could change the extension to DO and create it in the file system that way. All have arguments in their favor. I probably would have just fixed the extension and any characters that might corrupt the RAM file system. -- John.
