fred@wcom.UUCP (Fred Falk ) (03/11/85)
Hi there! I'm not using VIDTEX, but a homebrew terminal program... the problem is, I seem to be unable to program in C because I can't generate a right curly brace. Anyone have an idea as to what the control codes might be on a 64? Please send replies via mail to: [vax135|ihnp4]!timeinc!wcom!fred
calway@ecsvax.UUCP (James Calloway) (03/17/85)
References: <16@wcom.UUCP>
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Curly braces are ASCII 123 and 125. They correspond to shift-plus (window pane)
and shift-minus (vertical line) on the Commodore 64.
Shift-plus is open, shift-minus is close.
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{akgua,decvax}!mcnc!ecsvax!calwaymff@wuphys.UUCP (Swamp Thing) (05/15/85)
I recently downloaded a BASIC program from BYTENET onto a C64. The problem is this. The program ended up in an ASCII sequential-type file. I cannot get it loaded to run in this form. Looking at other BASIC programs on the disc, I saw that they were of type "PROGRAM". So, I read the sequential file into another file of type "PROGRAM", one line at a time. This produced garbage. (GIGO?). So, what do I do now? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Mark F. Flynn Department of Physics Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130 ihnp4!wuphys!mff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark." P. Floyd
lenoil@mit-eddie.UUCP (Robert Scott Lenoil) (05/17/85)
In article <277@wuphys.UUCP> mff@wuphys.UUCP (Mark F. Flynn) writes: >I recently downloaded a BASIC program from BYTENET onto a C64. The problem is >this. The program ended up in an ASCII sequential-type file. I cannot get it >loaded to run in this form. Looking at other BASIC programs on the disc, I saw >that they were of type "PROGRAM". So, I read the sequential file into another >file of type "PROGRAM", one line at a time. This produced garbage. (GIGO?). >So, what do I do now? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in >advance. BASIC programs are stored in a crunched (tokenized) form. Your ASCII listing can not be run by the BASIC interpreter. You need a method to tokenize that program listing. The March issue of the Transactor had a utility that would help. It munged things so that the C64 took its input from a disk file instead of from the screen. With that utility, you could simply run your program file as input, and the 64 would read it in line-by-line, building a program as if you had typed in the lines yourself. The way this utility works is by modifying the CLALL kernel call so that logical file #1 is not closed, but remains open. Then the BASIC warmstart routine is changed to set the default input to logical file #1, instead of the screen. This procedure continues, until READST indicates end of file, at which time normal screen input is restored.