Re: Fishwings or similar

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:19:17 GMT, Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote:

>Assuming it's a straight-text file named "PROGRAM.TXT", you type "EXEC 
>PROGRAM.TXT" from the basic prompt, sit back until it's finished, then 
>type "SAVE <pick a name>"

And if you want to save yourself a step you can always put the SAVE
statement at the end of you text file program listing like so:

10 HOME
...
more program code here
...
10000 END
SAVE PROGRAM.BAS

That way, when you EXEC the file it will save it for you.  You could
even put a RUN statement after the SAVE so that it will immediately
execute your code after it has saved it so that you can test it.

I remember using a text editor for editting Applesoft code years ago
but I found that when EXEC'd it into memory and ran it, I'd keep
fixing the bugs while in Applesoft and would then have to transfer the
changes I made there back to the text file listing.  I didn't do that
for long.  :-)

By the way, if you are EXEC'ing these files under ProDOS you can make
the typing even easier by using the smart execute command "-" which
will properly start an Applesoft (RUN), binary (BRUN) or text (EXEC)
file.  Using the example above it would be "- PROGRAM.TXT".  The space
between the - and the filename is optional IIRC.

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