Re: Applesoft Basic Question

[Rich Hare <rhare@mich.com>]

Thanks,
Don, Will, and Rubywand!
I know now what to do.


Rubywand wrote:
> 
> 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