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From: curtis@achilles.ctd.anl.gov (Jeffrey Curtis )
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Subject: Re: VAL...
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Date: 25 Jun 91 15:41:12 GMT
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In article <9106250928.AA11823@apple.com> ST6934@SIUCVMB.BITNET writes:
>On a somewhat similar line, when I first started programming in basic
>using basic.system, I wrote (with the help of some books) a program
>that accepted a group of numbers and performed various operations.
>When I tried using basic.system's STORE and RESTORE, I was only able
>to use a hard-coded name, rather than READ $F1, APPEND $F1, etc. after
>defining $F1 or some variable.
>
>Has anyone run into this before, or has STORE/RESTORE been given other
>parameters?  DTS?

If you put it into BASIC properly, it should have worked - since BASIC is
interpretive, the command would be parsed and variables substituted before
ProDOS ever saw it.. so, hypothetically,

10 ?chr$(4);"store filename"

is equivalent to

5 fn$="filename"
10 ?chr$(4);"store ";fn$

Is that how you set it up?  If so, and it didn't work, then something's
messed up with the parameter passing between ProDOS's Basic.system and the
ProDOS BI..

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