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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Bload (Grrrrrr..!!)
Message-ID: <216@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Jun-86 00:35:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: neoucom.216
Posted: Tue Jun 24 00:35:15 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Jun-86 04:35:24 EDT
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Keywords: How is it done in AmigaBasic??

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Hi,

I noticed one very annoying lack in AmigaBasic.  Namely, no way to
conveniently BLOAD or BSAVE a block of memory.  I suppose that the
customary OPEN facility could be used, but that is a pretty slow
way to go when 64K files are involved!

I was inspired by some of the digitized sound examples that I
downloaded from Compuserve.  I wanted to be able to play them from
a BASIC program.

I know that I could fall back to Metacomco BASIC, but making menus
is much easier with Microsoft BASIC.

By the way, does anybody know what the reserved word, "EDIT", is
used for in Mircosoft BASIC?  There doesn't seem to be any
discussion in the manual.

If any gurus have ideas about how to efficiently BLOAD/BSAVE a file
in MS BASIC, could you send me a letter?  If the responses are
interesting enough, I'll sumarize and post.

Bill Mayhew
N.E.O.U.C.O.M.
Rootstown, OH  44272 USA  (216) 325-2511
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