Author: William H Rogers
Date: 07:39:24 03/21/05
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Greetings A colon is used to seperate commands. If you saw the following code, A = B: C = D , you would effectively have the following: A = B C = D This allowed for a more condensed coding of programs. Unfortunately in QBasic some of these types of commands are not allowed. I decompressed the original coding by entering a line feed after most ":" to make reading the original code easier. As I stated earlier the original code only occupied about 4K of memory. In the original Basic all commands, such as goto, then, gosub, are reduced to a 2 byte command when the program was saved, thus saving much space. In all later versions of Basic each command took up as much space as the word was long. Bill
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