Re: Applesoft commands

[warren@col.hp.com (Warren Tustin)]

Nathan,
  Thanks for YOUR help!  My in-laws live >600miles away and I have a week
  to work on it.  Thanks for the info on the chr$(4).  Without a manual,
  odd things like that make me wonder if I'm doing things correctly.

  Also, I did spend an hour searching around on web pages for the 
  Applesoft BASIC commands and agree that this would be a nice addition
  to the FAQ (or at least a pointer to them).  (I was writing the program
  with an increment of 50 on the line numbers).

  I also was wondering about memory.  I stumbled on fre(x) to tell me how
  much memory is available.  Does the - number mean (32768 - (-N))?  I
  vaguely recall this from the days I helped someone else with a IIe and
  assumed the IIc was the same.  Does a lot of the 128k get used by BASIC?
  The IIc vintage is (255) in the 64447 location (I think that is the addr).

  Thanks again for your help!
  
: Nathan Mates
:    Yes. That was because Basic was written to be independent of the
: OS, and the OS basically intercepts prints to see if it's an OS
: call. Control-D (chr$(4)) was chosen as the prefix to all OS calls.

: > The FAQ doesn't have a pointer to the applesoft basic command set
: >(It didn't come with any manuals).  Does someone have a list of commands?
: >I can't figure out renumber (is this part of the basic BASIC?).  

:    There've been a lot of good books written on that subject; look
: around a used bookstore for a bunch of old ones. [Yes, I should get
: around to adding in a pointer to a list of Basic commands; that'll
: happen one of these weeks.]

:    Renumber is useful mostly only for renumbering programs; if you
: wrote your program with enough spacing between lines (i.e. increment
: by 10 or so) you'll rarely have any need of it.

: Nathan Mates