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
FWIW, "SET KEY" could be from a database BASIC of some sort. It could
refer to working with a database "key" rather than a keyboard key.
>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.
Cheers, Phred.
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