"Judson McClendon" <judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> "Allan Adler" <ara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > ...
> > 110 SET KEY
> > 121 GO TO 120
> > 200 PAGE
> > ...
>
> You're going to have a problem with line 121. :-)
Probably my typo...
> I couldn't find "SET KEY" or "PAGE" commands in "The BASIC Handbook,
> 3rd Edition," Copyright 1986, by Dr. David A. Lien, which was a pretty
> comprehensive reference of BASIC dialects at the time. I suspect this
> is either a later BASIC or an obscure one.
I would guess that PAGE starts a new page, e.g. a formfeed on a printer,
or a new screen on a terminal. Likewise, I would guess that WINDOW
describes
the size of the print area for a graph and AXIS has something to do with
drawing an axis. I don't have any idea about SET KEY. It would be better
if I could just read the program and know what all the keywards mean, but
I can probably manage without that since I do have some idea of what the
program is supposed to do and can probably improvise in writing my own
version of it.
One more thing I haven't tried is seeing if the author of the application
note is still alive and whether he still remembers what dialect of BASIC
he used. Or, if he published anything else, maybe he mentioned what
dialect
of BASIC he favored.
--
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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