On 3 Jan 2010, at 19:33, Norman Dunbar wrote:

> 
> On 03/01/10 19:20, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>> Does anyone have information on the format of _sav basic files (as used
>> by Liberation Software's QSAVE utility and the equivalent command in
>> SBASIC)?
> I'm thinking that I might have some information somewhere. However, I
> once wrote a SB program to decode a _SAV file and 'print' the output in
> SuperBasic - I was attempting to write a librarian program that could
> extract procs and FNs from a _SAV (plus dependencies) and write them out
> as normal SuperBasic code. (ASCII in other words!)
> 
> If I can find the code I'll send it over.
> 
> Failing that, Jan Jones or Tony Tebby's docs have all the details - a
> _SAV is simply a tokenised SUperBasic program in the format it is stored
> internally in the 'program file' area.
> 
> George will probably know all the details from his work on the Turbo stuff.
> 


I don't know the exact form of _SAV files but they are pretty certainly copies 
of the tokenised program. The tokens used by SMSQ/E incorporate Minerva 
additions to the original QL SuperBASIC as described by Jan Jones, and these 
will be in SMSQ/E _SAV files.

George
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