MCL9337@TAMVENUS.BITNET (01/07/88)
First... It is possible to write ^D to the disk. The easiest thing to do is to get a copy of the most impressive BASIC development program around, Beagle Bros.' Program Writer. It does full-screen editing and uses the mouse OR keyboard for cursor positioning. It has macro capabilities. It's really unbelievable! I don't use BASIC so much anymore, but that program certainly goes down as one of my all-time favorites. To make it short, it allows you to enter hard control characters that will appear as inverse video. (Really... you NEED this ware!) Second... A question: You ALL know those stupid Apple joystick buttons, I'm sure. The ones that stop working after awhile. Well, I have canibalized the internal button switches from both my paddles (never used anyway) to replace both the buttons on my joystick. Well... what happens when those (inevitably) quit working?? My question... Where can you buy replacement Apple joystick button switches? This question has plagued me for some time now! AAAAAAHHHHHH!! Take care... mark
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan Isaiah Kamens) (01/08/88)
In article <8801071221.aa17146@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> MCL9337@TAMVENUS.BITNET writes: >The easiest thing to do is to get a copy of the most impressive BASIC >development program around, Beagle Bros.' Program Writer.... >To make it short, it allows you to enter hard control characters that will >appear as inverse video. (Really... you NEED this ware!) This has already been mentioned by me. I also mentioned that such software will do nothing whatsoever to help you use an Applesoft program to write a ^D to a disk text file! Why? Because it is easy and very simple to put a control character in a program. Just type it! It is much harder, however, to write it to the disk. I repeat what I asked last time, though. I was under the impression that DOS will only intercept a ^D if it appears at the beginning of a line. So if you don't write it at the beginning of a line, will it get saved into the file or ignored? -=> Jonathan I. Kamens | "There is no expedient to which man will not go MIT '91 | to avoid the real labor of thought." jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU | -- Thomas Alva Edison
kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) (01/14/88)
In article <2184@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan Isaiah Kamens) writes: >I repeat what I asked last time, though. I was under the impression >that DOS will only intercept a ^D if it appears at the beginning of a >line. So if you don't write it at the beginning of a line, will it >get saved into the file or ignored? Just out of curiosity, why didn't you just try it? > -=> Jonathan I. Kamens | "There is no expedient to which man will not go Sean Kamath -- UUCP: {decvax allegra ucbcad ucbvax hplabs ihnp4}!tektronix!reed!kamath CSNET: reed!kamath@Tektronix.CSNET || BITNET: reed!kamath@Berkeley.BITNET ARPA: tektronix!reed!kamath@Berkeley <or> reed!kamath@hplabs US Snail: 3934 SE Boise, Portland, OR 97202 (I hate 4 line .sigs!)
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan Isaiah Kamens) (01/17/88)
In article <8053@reed.UUCP> kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) writes: <In article <2184@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan Isaiah Kamens) writes: <>I repeat what I asked last time, though. I was under the impression <>that DOS will only intercept a ^D if it appears at the beginning of a <>line. So if you don't write it at the beginning of a line, will it <>get saved into the file or ignored? < <Just out of curiosity, why didn't you just try it? I didn't just try it because I participate in the USENET either from a VAXstation 2000, a VAXstation II, or an IBM PC/RT. It would be very difficult for me to try an Apple DOS Applesoft BASIC program on a VAX. -=> Jonathan I. Kamens | "There is no expedient to which man will not go MIT '91 | to avoid the real labor of thought." jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU | -- Thomas Alva Edison