On 2/2/08 8:45 AM, in article y93ve574gky.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Allan
Adler" <ara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "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.
PAGE was present in Sinclair BASICs, IIRC.
WINDOW was in GW-BASIC, and maybe Sinclair's.
Try asking in comp.sys.sinclair as well?
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