In HTBasic documentation, the term ASCII file refers to a LIF ASCII file, not a regular DOS ASCII or UNIX ASCII file. A LIF ASCII file is a typed file which contains string items preceded by an item length, and followed by a pad byte when the string length is odd. Do not confuse the terms DOS ASCII, UNIX ASCII and LIF ASCII. A DOS ASCII file is a regular file which contains only printable characters and the end of each line is marked with a carriage return and line feed. A UNIX ASCII file is a regular file which contains only printable characters and the end of each line is marked with a line feed. HTBasic can read and write any of these file types. See CREATE and CREATE ASCII in the Reference Manual.
