CONFIGURE SAVE ASCII sets the file type SAVE uses when saving a file to disk. CONFIGURE SAVE ASCII ON, the default, produces a LIF compatible ASCII file. This type of file is useful for exchanging programs with older HP workstations that cannot use Regular files. See Chapter 10, "Transferring Programs and Data from HP BASIC."
CONFIGURE SAVE ASCII OFF produces regular Windows files that are compatible with all popular program editors, most word processors and later versions of HP BASIC. RE-SAVE produces the same file type as an existing file or the file type specified by CONFIGURE SAVE ASCII if no file exists. GET can read either file type, as well as Viper-I ASCII and Viper-II ASCII.
Note: If you use CONFIGURE SAVE ASCII OFF you should not embed carriage-returns or line-feeds in string literals since GET will interpret them as end-of-line indicators.
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