Wow! Thanks. I'll keep this for future reference as I got this message after I did it the hard way. In the last few days, I have been trying to find accessible material, not so much in basic programming as I did a bunch of that from 1979 until the early eighties in Applesoft Basic which is extremely similar to GW-Basic and basica but commands like the ,a flag are exactly what I was looking for but if you start searching for the basica command set, one tends to fall down a lot of rabbit holes leading to visual basic and so forth. I'm not even interested in programming in basic again as that ship sailed but I would have never figured out that flag of ,a if my life depended on it. Here's a bit of trivia if anybody wants to grind their brains a bit. I do know the answer but here it is: The list of program files on the disk all had normal dates when they were in unix. After I saved one of them using the save "progname.bas" ,a operation, the save was perfect but the date is now December 31, 1969 at 18:00 hours. I put the floppy in question back on a Linux box and did ls -lt on the files, expecting to find my newly-saved ASCII file first. With that creation date, it is dead last so the date matters but it's a small issue for the most part. Hint. If you live in some place other than the US/Central time zone, your strange date will be different such as if you live in the UK, your odd date will be 1 January of 1970 at Midnight. It's definitely not a "Twilight Zone" event but the first time you see that, it makes you wonder what's going on. Again, thanks. Martin McCormick Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > No need for any of this. Open up the program in basica. Then type save > “prog.bas”,a and you get an ascii version of the program saved to > disk. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list