From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:20:30 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Determining what was on a tape back in the day In-Reply-To: <44ADF2F6-78A6-4E81-9AAB-32015AC00E6E@ccc.com> References: <492E9EAA-73CE-4102-A1E2-690EB864AFC1@gmail.com> <80b192e2-562e-2de7-2200-7b70fd525776@kilonet.net> <44ADF2F6-78A6-4E81-9AAB-32015AC00E6E@ccc.com> Message-ID: <70c4a88d-84f1-8b09-b8ef-95ae8f1be37f@kilonet.net> How do you easily determine the last few line numbers so you know where to start appending new lines? On 11/18/2017 8:04 PM, Clem cole wrote: > 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 >> >