Msg: 4612 *Conference*

08-18-93 21:02:38

From: JOHN SOLON

To : TRACY ALLEN

Subj: REPLY TO MSG #4609 (CORRECTION)

Tnx, Tracy. It was the CI$ msg which I used and everything's working just
dandy! My little DA program loads TMPC from XR4 and opens the taskfile with
just 2 <CR>'s, just what I wanted!] I think I got muddled about my own question
about APPEND. What I don't understand is how/if the file to be APPENDed is cut
up into chunks to be APPENDed. Or can the whole thing be APPENDed as one big
$tring? The programs I've looked as models seem to measure $trings into
manageable chunks and NEXT thru a file until they've got the whole thing (if
I'm understanding the programming correctly, always dicey for me<g>). I don't
really have a problem with LOADing my master diary into RAM for APPENDing a
daily diary and then SAVEing the resulting new master file. I haven't been
successful in getting more than the first character of my daily file APPENDed,
though. All the rest of my auto-LOAD/auto-SAVE routine does just what it should
but I'm not scoring on the APPEND. Another Q? while I'm at it; the DA program
mentioned above is essentially a shell which calls a variety of programs (TMPC,
DATFIL, N-READ, calculator, etc. from XR4 bank 2. The BASIC progs. used are
altered to rerun the DA prog.) Seems like what it really needs added is the
ability to reset the ROM triggers, etc. ala the revised XR4MNU. I have tried to
insert the FOR NEXT loop from lines 942 & 943 into DA.BA but when I try running
DA.BA when a ROM bank was the last active bank I get scrambled, then iced. Any
suggestions or should I just hang on for the next generation of XR4 software,
which sounds in the flyer from earlier this summer like it will solve the
problem for me. tnx(a heap)'n'cheers-John