I have an old .bas file that I am trying to view and run into some problems. A search on the Internet seems to indicate that I should just open it in notepad or similar, but that gives me gibberish, for example:
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I know the file sounds because I can open it in Gwbasic. However, the list does not seem to work for viewing the file. I also tried to save the ascii file from Gwbasic, but that didn't work either. Both just gave me the error "Invalid function call":
GW-BASIC 3.22
(C) Copyright Microsoft 1983,1984,1986,1987
60300 Bytes free
Ok
LOAD"Pwrharm
Ok
LIST
Illegal function call
Ok
SAVE "Pwrharm2",A
Illegal function call
Ok
RUN
[Program runs successfully]
Again, the RUN command is working fine. What am I doing wrong?
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