[Coco] BASIC format questions

[tim lindner]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:04 PM, John W. Linville
<linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:39:47PM -0600, William Astle wrote:
>> The 1Exx bits are, indeed, the address of the next line in the program.
>> However, those addresses as stored in the file are not critical information.
>> They are recalculated when a program is loaded. You can basically ignore
>> them unless you're messing with the Color Basic interpreter itself. The only
>> restriction is that they cannot be set to 0000 since that will be
>> interpreted as the end of the program. Any non-zero value in the program
>> file will work just fine, even if it's all the same value.
>>
>> In case I buried the lead there, both LOADM and CLOADM recalculate those
>> next line address pointers after reading the program.
>
> <nerdvoice>
>
> Ummm, actually...I think you mean "buried the lede":
>
> http://grammarist.com/usage/lead-lede/
>
> </nerdvoice>
>
> Sorry, but if anything I thought you might actually enjoy this bit
> of pedantry... :-)

<double nerdvoice>

I think he also meant LOAD and CLOAD.

</double nerdvoice>





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