[Coco] quick basic09 copy program

[Willard Goosey]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:47:03PM -0600, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:

>A larger buffer (with larger read/writes) will run a bit faster than
>a smaller buffer, but you can hard code it for whatever size you want

Is that proper BASIC-09 style?  This would be like:
PROCEDURE filecopy
PARAM oldfile, newfile...
....
DIM buffer[2000] ....

(or something like that, I can't do actual correct BASIC-09 off the
top of my head)

Or would it be more useful as a general-purpose subroutine, to be
like:
PROCEDURE filecopy
PARAM oldfile, newfile, buffer
.....

The first one you'd just  RUN filecopy("/dd/foo", "./bar")
The second would be :
DIM buff[2000]
....
RUN filecopy("/dd/foo","./bar",buff)

The second way, when you add a MultiVue interface to your program, you
can shrink the buffer the subroutine uses, even if you don't have the
source for it.

Willard
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