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Re: Apple ][ prompts?

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
: In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.970727111659.12892B-100000@winnie.freenet.mb.ca>,
: Doug Browning  <vgt507@freenet.mb.ca> wrote:
: >You forgot Applesoft executing an input command: ?.

:    D'Oh! Shows how long it's been since I regularly used INPUT (and the
: rest of Applesoft for that matter). On the other hand, I was severely
: tempted to put in Orca/Shell's # prompt. [Which is more of a rootshell
: prompt to me nowadays, but ... :]

Well, Nathan, I'm a longtime Applesoft programmer and I missed that one
too.  Why?  Because I haven't written a program with 'INPUT V$' or
something similar in it in a very long time.  On the rare occasion that I
do use INPUT it is usually 'INPUT "";Q1$' which suppresses the '?' prompt...

8-)

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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