11 Nov
2003
11 Nov
'03
1:52 a.m.
Could the 14 be a field width specifier, so that it prints "SULU" with either
10 leading or 10 trailing spaces?
--John
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:39 am, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Frank Schickel wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's an inline tab specifier. I seem to recall using this
is some form of BASIC on some computer at some point in my past.
What does
'14 in a PRINT statement, in front of a quoted string, mean
(eg in PRINT '14"SULU")? I wondered if it were something like PRINT
TAB(14)"... but there are TAB()s elsewhere. A control character,
perhaps? If cursor or screen control, are they octal or decimal (I'd
guess decimal) and is there a table anywhere?
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....