[Coco] Programming help

Tormod Volden lists.tormod at gmail.com
Tue Jun 25 17:29:14 EDT 2013


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Another huge gotcha in many of those old listings is the inability of the
> reader to discern whether that character is a 1(one) or an l(ell), most
> DMP's used to make the offset plates in those days, did not make a
> distinction and the reader had to rely on surrounding context to decide
> which it was.  Sometimes even trying it both ways to see which worked...

True. The original post displays "org $EOO" instead of "org $E00" and
"LDB O,Y" instead of "LDB 0,Y". The latter shouldn't be fatal unless
there is an "O" (letter) macro, but the former is a killer. Of course
this could be correct on the poster's Coco and just got wrong in the
e-mail, but what do we know.

Tormod



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