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Re: BASIC Question

bird@MCS.COM (Joe Walters) asked:

<quote>
I'm in the process of modifying the BASIC program, "HOME ACCONTANT,"
so it can be installed on a hard drive for a member of my Apple Club
that uses this program quite a bit.

Things are going somewhat well until I come to the BASIC file, MEMOS.
It has the following lines:

10 GOSUB 60000

60000 *
60025 DATA LOTSA STUFF
60030 ** DATA MORE LOTSA STUFF

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?
</quote>

Hmmm.  I Applesoft, the statement "*" (asterisk by itself) is not a legal
statement.  Why no syntax error when GOSUBing to 60000?

Apart from that, I would begin to suspect hidden code.  Might try the
Program Writer option to display control characters...  I could even
hold some location-independent machine code, but that is usually
stuck after a REM.


-michael

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