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Re: Podule rom creator

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In message <88f3da6c-2c54-496f-bf8f-0d0e0c4c3c24@w4g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>
          Sprow <news@sprow.co.uk> wrote:

> On Jan 13, 12:32 am, cfer...@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid wrote:
> > > On Jan 11, 11:31 pm, cfer...@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid wrote:
> > > > Is there a program for generating a Podule Rom file :-
> >
> > > Try MakeExpROM from
> > >  http://www.riscosopen.org/viewer/view/mixed/RiscOS/Library/Build/
> >
> > Thanks for that - but what format is the file - it doesn't seem
> > to be BASIC or TEXT - is it corrupted?.
> 
> It's BASIC, which is why it ends in ",ffb" which is the notation used
> on filing systems that can't hold filetype meta data.
> 
> On Jan 13 jeff wrote:
> > It looks to me that it *was* BASIC before the version control
> > system destroyed it.
> > All of the BASIC tokens have been corrupted to two-byte-
> > sequences.
> 
> The version control system has nothing to do with it, CVS has stored
> it flawlessly (and it's even marked as binary which people often
> forget to do). The issue is that your webbrowser can't sensibly guess
> the mimetype so assumes it is text and garbles the tokenised BASIC.
> 
> You need to check it out and it runs just fine,
> Sprow.

Hmm - just tried :
!Phoenix
!NetSurf
!Fresco
!Oregano
!Firefox (RO)
All corrupted files :-(


-- 
Colin Ferris Cornwall UK

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Podule rom creator cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2012-01-11 23:31 +0000
  Re: Podule rom creator Sprow <news@sprow.co.uk> - 2012-01-12 13:42 -0800
    Re: Podule rom creator cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2012-01-13 00:32 +0000
      Re: Podule rom creator jeff <jeffrey.a.doggett@gmail.com> - 2012-01-13 00:11 -0800
      Re: Podule rom creator Sprow <news@sprow.co.uk> - 2012-01-13 14:13 -0800
        Re: Podule rom creator cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2012-01-13 23:10 +0000
          Re: Podule rom creator Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-01-13 23:15 +0000
            Re: Podule rom creator Alex Macfarlane Smith <nospam@archifishal.co.uk> - 2012-01-15 00:27 +0000
              Re: Podule rom creator Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-01-15 05:10 +0100
                Re: Podule rom creator Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-01-15 10:54 +0000
                Re: Podule rom creator Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-01-15 16:05 +0100
                Re: Podule rom creator Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-01-15 19:01 +0000
      Re: Podule rom creator Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-01-15 05:07 +0100
        Re: Podule rom creator cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2012-01-15 18:46 +0000
        Re: Podule rom creator cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2012-01-18 11:30 +0000
          Re: Podule rom creator Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-01-18 13:07 +0000
            Re: Podule rom creator cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2012-01-23 22:14 +0000
              Re: Podule rom creator cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2012-01-24 11:56 +0000

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