From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [TUHS] Determining what was on a tape back in the day
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 18:35:51 -0500 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <492E9EAA-73CE-4102-A1E2-690EB864AFC1@gmail.com>
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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?
On 11/18/2017 6:16 PM, Don Hopkins wrote:
>
>> On 18 Nov 2017, at 23:37, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org
>> <mailto:dave at horsfall.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 18 Nov 2017, Don Hopkins wrote:
>>
>> (LISTREVERSE}
>>
>>> Chalk one up for DEC and BASIC. What other programming languages
>>> support that feature, huh?
>>
>> You could probably do it in APL; you could do damned well everything
>> else after all...[*]
>
> If you LISTREVERSE’ed a Lisp program, it would look like PostScript
> with parens!
>
>>
>>> LISTREVERSE and LISTNHREVERSE print the contents of the user's
>>> memory area in order of descending line numbers. LISTREVERSE
>>> precedes the output with a heading, LISTNHREVERSE eliminates the
>>> heading.
>>
>> Why on earth would you want to?
>
> I have been wondering about that for years.
>
> Here’s the manual! LISTREVERSE is documented on page 9-3. Maybe if I
> printed out the "READERS COMMENTS" form at the back of the manual,
> wrote my question in big upper case block letters, then ticked the "If
> you require a written reply, please check here” checkbox, then “Fold
> Here” and “Do Not Tear - Fold Here and Staple” as instructed, I could
> mail in the free first class pre-addressed, business reply mail, no
> postage stamp necessary if mailed inside the United States envelope,
> and they’d write me back a nice letter telling me what the fuck they
> were thinking.
>
> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/DEC-20-LBMAA-A-D%20BASIC%20User%27s%20Guide.pdf
>
> -Don
>
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-18 16:39 Will Senn
2017-11-18 18:57 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-18 20:03 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-18 22:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-18 23:16 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-18 23:35 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2017-11-19 0:35 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-19 0:42 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-19 1:04 ` Clem cole
2017-11-19 16:20 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-20 2:33 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-11-18 21:26 ` Will Senn
2017-11-18 22:39 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-18 18:34 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-18 18:37 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-18 18:40 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-18 21:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-18 21:07 ` Will Senn
2017-11-18 22:53 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-19 1:47 ` Will Senn
2017-11-18 19:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-18 21:32 ` Will Senn
2017-11-18 21:49 ` Warren Toomey
2017-11-19 13:41 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-19 14:55 ` Clem cole
2017-11-19 21:00 ` William Corcoran
2017-11-19 21:19 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-19 22:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-19 22:38 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-19 22:40 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-19 23:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-20 1:02 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-20 1:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-20 18:12 ` Random832
2017-11-20 23:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-20 23:35 ` William Pechter
2017-11-21 0:01 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-20 19:02 ` Paul Winalski
2017-11-19 14:55 ` Will Senn
2017-11-19 17:49 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-19 18:35 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-19 18:45 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-19 20:46 Steve Simon
2017-11-20 16:01 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-20 17:37 ` Will Senn
2017-11-20 17:00 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-20 19:42 Noel Chiappa
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