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From: tswift@well.sf.ca.us (Theodore John Swift)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Power on/off function in Tandy 200 Basic?
Message-ID: <24908@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 21 May 91 02:36:08 GMT
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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I had this problem with the POWER function in Tandy 200 BASIC:
(crucial details deleted)
> >POWER "hh:mm:ss","mm/dd/yy", "BASIC program"
> >20 POWER "19:I:00", "05/14/91", FOO.BA 'this being 7:30 on tuesday 14 May

then cameronjames@snoc01.enet.dec.com (James Cameron) suggested:

> Ted,
> Try POWER "19:"+RIGHT$(STR$(I+100),2)+":00","05/14/91",FOO.BA

and, hot damn: it worked!  Or at least, it ran and beeped.  Thanks, James!
The crucial part was to add the RIGHT$(string,2) part.  I had tried simply

      POWER "19:"+STR$(I)+":00","05/14/91", FOO.BA

which doesn't work.  I also found that it was important to make it "FOO.BA",
in quotes, since POWER is looking for a string.  Now we'll see if it can be
made to happen repetatively under program control.  Stay tuned.
-- 
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Ted Swift tswift@well.sf.ca.us
"You bally well are informed, Jeeves!  Do you know everything?"
"I don't know, sir"    ~P.G. Wodehouse