11 Nov
2003
11 Nov
'03
7:50 a.m.
On Nov 10, 21:34, Frank Schickel wrote:
probably
I programmed a little bit on 2000F and may retain a
little
bit....
[...]
If it's a straight "LIST" of the
program, then the format would
be a standard format of the line number followed by two spaces; so
I would bet that the @s are spurious and can be ignored.
OK, I guess it's just line noise, and I'll remove them. There's
another place where there's something that doesn't quite make sense to
me (yet) so I'll have a closer look there too (line 740 in TREK1).
> What does '14 in a PRINT statement, in
front of a quoted string,
mean
I'm not sure about this one, but this may have been a way to print
control characters in a PRINT statement without using CHR$(). If so,
what would a control-n do on a teletype? I thought it *might* be
octal,
but that would make it a form-feed, which wouldn't
make much sense
in the status sections because it would print <FF>TORPEDOES<FF> and
then the status, which would waste a *lot* of paper....
I wondered about octal, but decimal 14 is Shift Out which makes more
sense. Sort of. See my reply to John K.
What exactly
do the first two parameters to the ENTER command do?
If I remember rightly, ENTER lets you get
the time the user takes to enter the input. It looks like it's "ENTER <time allowed>, <time taken>,
<input>".
I'm sure that's it. The code has provision for various null inputs
too.
This brings back memories. I never could get into
this one, since I
could never get the proper strategy figured out. I preferred the
other TREK where you had to eliminate the Klingons in the galaxy....
Oh, I have a few of those online, too :-)
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York