[Coco] How to generate BASIC line pointers ?

[Johann Klasek]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 08:46:45AM -0600, William Astle wrote:
> On 2013-08-28 08:32, Johann Klasek wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 04:19:01PM +0200, CoCoList at jensdiemer.de wrote:
> >>Am 28.08.2013 16:12, schrieb Aaron Wolfe:
> >>>I believe you will need to tokenize the text line to get its length in
> >>>memory.
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> 
> For Color Basic on the COCO, the line pointers in a saved basic program 
> are ignored because the program may not load to the same address it was 
> saved from. Instead, after the program loads, it scans the program and 
> recalculates all the pointers. As long as the pointer isn't zero, it 
> probably doesn't matter much what it is in that case.

You are right, other Basics with MS roots do the same (CBM Basic variants).