[Coco] WHAT MANNER OF UNHOLY WIZARDRY IS THIS?

[Juan Castro]

I didn't express myself quite right, there's BASIC instructions in
there that execute it. I said "don't run it" so people could take a
look at it.

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> 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"
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Bill Pierce
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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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