MSBasic Or access to open and close files from basic

[Bee91303]

I would like to make a contacts program in Basic. For this to be feasible you need a way to store and retrieve data from inside the program. I understand the objection to MSbasic but is anyone work on either of these? Porting MSbasic or adding the functionality tr EHbasic?

Thx

[netzerohero]

Have you considered using EHBasic's "DATA" keyword (to store your contact data directly within BASIC source code) along with using "READ" and "RESTORE"?

However, if you are considering file read/write access from EHbasic: I don't believe a file read/write feature from within EHbasic is currently available. Neither the EHbasic nor EHbasic-plus have that level of maturity. EHBasic-plus would be the place to first try adding those "experimental" features.

You may want to refer to this discussion; see the two open rp6502 API file-access features 11 and 12. Adding OS (API) calls from within either EHbasic repo would then theoretically provide file-level access from within EHbasic.