On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 1:09 AM John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 1:05 AM Tom Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yeah, I experienced the same thing. At the very least, the de-tokenizer >> needs to scan for quotes and set an "inQuote" flag when it hits a quote and >> export those as their ASCII value, not their token code. However, it would >> be really nice if we could get some sort of hex tokens, such as \xFF, so >> the files would be 8-bit safe and we could construct BASIC programs on the >> PC without having to hack in extended ASCII codes after the fact. >> >>> >>> > It might be useful, but you wouldn't be able to load such a program back > into a Model T, at least without a well though out escape/quoting mechanism. > Yeah, this would be entirely for exchanging data between VirtualT and a PC based editor. I keep thinking of how the Commodore community did it...a long time ago, the magazine writers standardized a set of {token codes} for all the key combos that printed graphic symbols. So when we saw a listing with something like {Shift P}, we would hold shift and press P. I was actually thinking of writing a program to tokenize and de-tokenize stuff using the Graph, Code, and Graph/Code+Shift codes... but I want to get my Star Trek port done first. =)
