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File Naming

Conventions

Series

80

Program Files

It

is

recommended

that

Series 80 file

names

be

restricted to

upper

and

lower case alphabetic characters, numeric charac-

ters,

the

period,

and

the

underscore character 1/_".

Any

files

that

you

do

not

want

to transfer

can

be

masked

with

an

asterisk

1/*"

as

the

first character

in

the

file name.

Converting

Series

80

Program

Files

to

ASCII

Files.

Series 80

program

files

can

not

be

directly transferred using

this utility.

Program

files

must

first

be

converted

into ASCII

data

files

by

the

Advanced

Programming

ROM

::;

A

I.}

E com-

mand

or

by

the

::;

A

I.}

E

command

available

in

the

GET

::;

A

I.}

E

binary.

After using

the

SA'.}E

command

to convert

the

program

into

a

data

file,

rename

the

file to

start

with

an

underscore

character

1/_" (not a

minus

sign or a

hyphen).

This is to allow

the

utility

to distinquish

between

the

Series 80

DATA

files

that

contain

programs,

and

those

that

contain data. This is

important

since

the

GET

command

in

HP-UX Technical BASIC

cannot

retrieve

programs

from

DATA

files.

Series

80

BASIC

Programs

Containing

Binary

Programs.

Any

Series 80

program

that

contains

binary

pro-

gram

keywords

may

be

transferred to

an

HP-UX text file.

First

use

the

Series 80 BASIC

LOA

D

E:

I

t·4

command

to

load

the

binary,

then

S A

I.}

E

the

file using a file

name

beginning

with

an

underscore character. Use

the

upload

program

to

convert

the

file,

then

in

HP-UX Technical BASIC,

use

the

GET com-

mand

to retrieve

the

file. The parser will, however, flag all

binary

keywords as syntax errors

or

variable names.

To

avoid syntax errors, try

the

following:

1. Replace binary keywords

with

functionally equivalent

ROM keywords,

if

possible.

2.

Replace

binary

keywords

with

user

defined

functions

or

subprograms.

Uploading

Series

80

BASIC

Files

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