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From: rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Reading SEQ files
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.213545.18354@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 21:35:45 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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elwin@hubcap.clemson.edu (lawrence brown) writes:

>All of the .doc files are in the directory as SEQuential.  When
>I try to LOAD any of them, preperatory to LISTing them. I get a
>file not found error.

The problem is, SEQ files can't be loaded like PRG files can.  You need some
sort of sequential file reading utility to read the documentation, as
commodore DOS has no built-in way to do this.  A number of these utilities
exist.  If you are on a 128, the KeyDOS utility by Randy Winchester (found at
milton) will do this (and a whole lot else).  On the 64, if you have Q-Link,
the program omega-q can type sequential files.  Another 64 program to type 64
files is called sprint.  If you are really stuck, you can cludge it with this
BASIC program:

10 open 1,8,1,"filename,s,r"
20 if st<>0 then 50  : rem this line may be wrong, somebody correct me
30 get#1,a$:printa$;
40 goto20
50 close 1

I just threw that off of the top of my head, so there may be something wrong
with it, but the basic idea is OK, I think.

If there is demand, later (when I am at my 128) I will post sprint here.

-Rob Knop
rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu