From: don@DonHopkins.com (Don Hopkins)
Subject: [TUHS] Determining what was on a tape back in the day
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 01:42:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E59DCF87-A485-4C32-85EE-B1767EC363AC@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1711181933001.24387@frieza.hoshinet.org>
> On 19 Nov 2017, at 01:35, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-19 0:42 UTC|newest]
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
2017-11-19 0:35 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-19 0:42 ` Don Hopkins [this message]
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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