Msg: 949 *Conference*
11-17-91 18:30:14
From: TRACY ALLEN
To : RICHARD HANSON
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #946 (HOW ABOUT A DATE?)
Dear Rick, An MIT friend of mine, an electronics theory whiz, always made a point of inserting a total blooper error near the beginning of any pulic presentation. That way he would have one of two things: 1) An audience that would break the ice by not feeling shy asbout asking questions, or 2) knowledge that the audience was totalie zomboid. It was soooo funny to go to a lectu;re where a bunch of high-powered professors were3 present (this guy was a grad student), and this blooper would go by, and all you would see was totally glazed eyes. What do you expect at 4:00 in the afternoon? Is that how your classes are, Mssr. Hanson? totally NEW. I don't see the problem with the CLENUP.BA 0 CLEAR0,MAXRAM:MAXFILES=1:NEW True it both clears the unsaved BASIC buffer _and_ deactivates itself as the active program. But try it--CLENUP.BA is still on the menu to use again. Touche'. You get the " by plussing a CHR$(34) KEY2,"LOAD"+CHR$(34) KEY2,"RUN"+CHR$(34)+"CLEAN" Don't make it too easy! Sometimes you might regret losing your unsaved BASIC program or you might have some .CO installed that is running off the timer hook or something, so running the cleanup program would be cold city. I'd never want to have it as a menu program, much less an F-key. Better in my thinking to print a little lable to paste to the bottom of the computer (one of those Club100 labels). TO FREE UP MEMORY TYPE THE FOLLOWING IN BASIC: CLEAR0,MAXRAM frees up (clears) the PASTE buffer and frees up space reserved for running .CO programs MAXFILES=1 frees up space used to store files on input and output NEW frees up space used by your unsaved BASIC program It takes deliberate actions to type the commands. -- Tracy