figuring out the field format of a fiel created in GW-BASIC

I am trying to digitize all my and my families music on tape and I am going through the tapes to check to see if what I have in my data files that were created in GW-BASIC are accurate. I have two files for my tapes and one can I read normally with the program I wrote, but the second seems to be a different format as far as how long the fields are because the data that get printed after a get statement is all over the place.

In the past I have had success opening the dat file in Excel and trying to count the number of characters in each field, but for this one it doesn't seem to be working. Anyone with experience with GW-BASIC have any ideas?

I figured it out. I expanded the field length but forgot to expand the overall record length on the open statement.

Now that's the sort of boo-boo that catches nearly all of us out sooner or later !  couple of years ago I wrote a program which collected data from a micro-processor without creating any variables to hold the data. It didn't run !

Thanks for telling us how you fixed it.

Chris Cosgrove

It's always the simplest things that get us.