Re: Applesoft Basic Question

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Rich Hare writes ...
> 
 ....

> I have a large number of files to process, and the disk swapping is
> slowing me down.  I'd like to have the program read the file from S6,D1
> and write it to S6,D2; but darn it I can't seem to parse the statements
> to make it work.  It seems that it should be something like:
> 
> 100 D$=CHR$(4)
> 110 PRINT D$;"BLOAD"A$;S6,D1

 ....

     As has been mentioned, the main thing is to enclose all
non-variable parts of a DOS command in quotes. You are constructing a
string; so, something like ...

110 PRINT D$"BLOAD"A$"S6,D1"

is fine.


     You mention using ONERR. Something that would help with finding
errors is to disable ONERR during testing. You can do this by making the
ONERR statement into a REM.



Rubywand