Simon D. Williams wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Michael J. Mahon wrote:Then I load the program I'm working on and EXEC in the text file to add the lines I want, && into Program Writer, and edit away.Ah, I didn't realise you could EXEC a text file with a program loaded. Good to know for future reference.
EXEC is just like typing... ;-) Back in the bad old days, some people used their favorite text editor to edit BASIC programs, EXECing them in each time after making a change. It was also a way to keep comments in a program without having them take space in memory...just don't assign line numbers to the REMs you don't want in RAM. -michael AppleCrate: An Apple II "blade server"! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."