Very old MS Basic listing to ASCII?

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From: Andrew Carol
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:22

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I have a very old MS DOS BASIC application that I saved more 12 years
ago (DOS days) and wanted to look at it to figure out a protocol I used
in that app.

I wish I had saved it as text, but it's tokenized. 

Does anyone recall the format of a tokenised saved MSDOS BASIC app?

I'm hoping it's as simple as reading two bytes for the line number,
print the line as ASCII (expanding high bit bytes by token lookup) and
looping until done.

Does anybody have a table of bytes->tokens?  Or layout info for the
file format?

Thanks!

--- Andy

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