Re: BASIC Question

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5ju77k$1lm$1@Mercury.mcs.net>, Joe Walters <bird@MCS.COM> wrote:
>Things are going somewhat well until I come to the BASIC file, MEMOS.
>It has the following lines:
>10 GOSUB 60000
[...]
>60000 *

   I hope you're using * as a wildcard here, as that line as listed
is not valid code.

>My problem is that I need to modify line 60000 from within Program
>Writer. When I try I'm told that the "Line is too long." Hard to
>believe that a single "*" is too long. What am I missing?

   Either the fact that that's not real code, or Program Writer may
just have a bad day with any line number >=60000.

Nathan
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