Re: Castle Adventure by David Malmberg

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <8c160850.0407150505.6b5cddfd@posting.google.com>,
Ben Yates <anoneds@netscape.net> wrote:

> pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote in message news:<cd1ebc$2er3$1@merope.saaf.se>...
> 
>>>And other computers used line-length indicators. OpenVMS (and
>>>strangely, the TI-99/4A) had record length attributes in front of
>>>variable-length records to determine the record length.
>> 
>> A lot of BASIC interpreters used that method when storing the
>> program text in tokenized form.
> 
> But I was talking about data files. 
> 
> Ben

A tokenized BASIC program is really a data file: it is read by a
program (the BASIC interpreter) which performs actions depending on
the data in that file.  Sometimes the BASIC interpreter writes such a
data file - when given the SAVE command.  Editing the data file is
usually done only in-memory: when adding/modifying/deleting lines
of BASIC code.



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