From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem cole) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 20:04:46 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Determining what was on a tape back in the day In-Reply-To: References: <492E9EAA-73CE-4102-A1E2-690EB864AFC1@gmail.com> <80b192e2-562e-2de7-2200-7b70fd525776@kilonet.net> Message-ID: <44ADF2F6-78A6-4E81-9AAB-32015AC00E6E@ccc.com> List start,end Is standard Dartmouth basic from Kemeny & Kurtz - (aka K&K) which was the equivalent of K&R in those days. [i think I have my Dad’s copy from they early 1960’s - which is what he taught me with in 1967]. And Yes DEC basic supported it Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. > On Nov 18, 2017, at 7:42 PM, Don Hopkins wrote: > > >> On 19 Nov 2017, at 01:35, Steve Nickolas wrote: >> >> On Sat, 18 Nov 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote: >> >>> Tail for BASIC. On a slow printer or CRT, you could ^C and only see the last few lines. Better than printing out the entire thing from the beginning. >>> >>> Or did it have a way of listing only a certain range of line numbers? >> >> Can't speak for DEC's dialect. Apple's dialect supported LIST start,end and Microsoft's dialects supported LIST start-end (with some supporting the comma variant as well). >> >> Never heard of a backward LIST before. o.O >> >> -uso. > > Maybe there was a corresponding RUNREVERSE command! > > -Don >