[Coco] WHAT MANNER OF UNHOLY WIZARDRY IS THIS?

[Arthur Flexser]

Bill, putting the drive number before rather than after the filename has
always been a legal alternate syntax in Disk Basic.

Art


On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Juan
> Niether can RSDOS and never has as far as I know... the correct syntax is:
> LOAD"FILENAME/EXT:n"
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com>
> To: CoCo List <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Apr 20, 2014 7:39 pm
> Subject: [Coco] WHAT MANNER OF UNHOLY WIZARDRY IS THIS?
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> Get the DSK image "ADV2" in this page.
> http://sites.mpc.com.br/ric/cp400/eadv.htm
> Now load the BASIC program called "#" and list it, don't run.
> It gets the address of the end of the BASIC program, subracts 6 and
> UMPS TO IT! And an INTERACTIVE DISK MENU POPS OUT OF NOWHERE!
> What is going on here?
> (Unrelatedly, it seems HDB-DOS can't LOAD or LOADM files with
> n:FILENAME.EXT" syntax. It gives me a ?FN ERROR.)
> Juan
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