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From: david@ecrhub.UUCP (David M. Haynes)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Apple Press Mac Basic (Flame)
Message-ID: <252@ecrhub.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 08:27:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 08:27:00 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Sep-85 07:29:35 EDT
Organization: Emerald City Research, Toronto
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A young friend of mine came to me the other day very upset with the book
"Introduction to Macintosh Basic" by Scot Kamins (Full details at bottom
of message)

She was trying to do a small programming task under Basic as
part of her homework assignment (yes that young!) The idea was to program
the "animal" game (where the computer learns about more and more animals
as you progress) and to have the data file of animals stored on disk.

She had purchased this book to help her learn programming. 

Does the book talk about FILE IO at all???? It does not!
Does Macintosh Basic Support FILE IO??? It does!!!
So, what is going on here? Surely no-one is naive enough to assume that
no-one wants to ever store data! Its incredible!

After thumbing through this turkey myself I also noticed that there is no
summary of the Basic commands either! 

The full reference for this work ($27.00 CDN) is as follows:

	Kamins, Scot
	Introduction to Macintosh BASIC
	(c) 1984 ISBN 0-8104-6550-7
	Hayden Book Company (Apple Press)

p.s. Anyone want to send me the full FILE IO commands for Microsoft Basic?
     Thanks!
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