[Coco] WHAT MANNER OF UNHOLY WIZARDRY IS THIS?

[Arthur Flexser]

The question is how does that end-packed binary get executed simply by
listing the program and not running it?  Or did I misunderstand your
description, Juan?

Art


On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, and now I get it: the BASIC program has a binary part appended
> after it, and it gets loaded along.
>
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 9:07 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?
> >
> >
> > 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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