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Re: CP/M disk format question
On Jul 12, 6:42 pm, pau...@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
>
> The GW-BASIC-tokens.html web page stated that GW-BASIC never stored
> the line addresses, only the line numbers, when a GW-BASIC program
> was SAVE'd in tokenized format. Here MBASIC behaved differently:
> if the program in memory had line addresses instead of line numbers,
> the SAVE'd program would also contain line addresses, if it was saved
> in tokenized format. Back when I still wrote some programs in
> MBASIC, I therefore used to execute the program first, thoroughly enough
> to make sure all GOTO's/GOSUB's had been executed, before I SAVE'd
> the program in tokenized format - then it would execute slightly faster
> the next time I LOAD'ed and RUN'ned it. If the program was to be saved in
> ASCII format, this didn't matter of course.
>
Any chance you could send me some disk images with files that contain
line addresses instead of line numbers? I haven't come across this yet
in any of the (quite limited) images I've tested my code against.