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From: curtis@achilles.ctd.anl.gov (Jeffrey Curtis )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Text files & BASIC
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Date: 25 Jun 91 15:36:49 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.050640.19679@crash.cts.com> bill@pro-gateway.cts.com (Bill Long, SysOp) writes:
>Is there a way, in AppleSoft BASIC, to READ from a text file for a while,
>then pause reading for a while and take input from the keyboard and put
>output to the screen, and then continue READing from where you left off?

Well, you could do it with pseudo-machine language (ie, make CALLs or PEEKs
to certain registers), but I'm assuming you don't want to get that messy.
It CAN be done; it's just a matter of resetting a pointer away from the file
and back to the keyboard; this causes all INPUT commands to read from the
console, but the problem is I don't know if there's an official way to do it
in BASIC/DOS or not.  Anyone else know how to do this?  If not, I'll post
a quickie in a few days showing you how to do it a few different ways with
CALLs, PEEKs, and POKEs..

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