Community Dev Notes Version 5.21 - 2025-03-24

In preparation for using Mutant Basic to create an ATASCII editor ...
(so that I can create some nice looking ATASCII menus) ...
a few changes:

*) A small change to "PRINT", if the emulation type is ATASCII then it skips the internal text transformation routine which is needed for PETSCII.  This allows ATASCII characters such as box drawing and block characters to be printed using chr$(n) where n is the ATASCII code.

*) Mutant Basic finally has file handling functions.  The details of this will be added to the Programmer's Reference Guide at mutinybbs.com (web) later today as time permits.
But in short lets you open files (within the directory the basic program is executing from) for reading, writing, appending, deleting.

*) The basic GET statement no longer echos the keypress, this will let me make the ATASCII editor's cursor movement & character placement routine without having to rely on inkey$.  It was never supposed to echo anyway, so if you want it to echo you'll have to include a PRINT in your basic program after the GET.
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