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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan Isaiah Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Two things...
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Date: 8 Jan 88 03:57:24 GMT
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In article <8801071221.aa17146@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> MCL9337@TAMVENUS.BITNET writes:
>The easiest thing to do is to get a copy of the most impressive BASIC
>development program around, Beagle Bros.' Program Writer....
>To make it short, it allows you to enter hard control characters that will
>appear as inverse video.  (Really... you NEED this ware!)

This has already been mentioned by me.  I also mentioned that such
software will do nothing whatsoever to help you use an Applesoft
program to write a ^D to a disk text file!

Why?  Because it is easy and very simple to put a control character in
a program.  Just type it!  It is much harder, however, to write it to
the disk.

I repeat what I asked last time, though.  I was under the impression
that DOS will only intercept a ^D if it appears at the beginning of a
line.  So if you don't write it at the beginning of a line, will it
get saved into the file or ignored?


 -=> Jonathan I. Kamens | "There is no expedient to which man will not go
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