Atari XL User Manual

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The TV speaker will beep once, indicating that you
should position the tape and press the PLA Y key on
the cassette uni t. When you press RETURN again
the tape will begin to move an the first program the
XL finds on the tape will be loaded.
The two other groups of loading and saving
commands are less commonly used.
SA VE and LOAD
This pair of commands are more general in their
application, and you must specify to which device
you wish to save your program. For the cassette
unit the syntax is:
SAVE "C: "- the C indicating the cassette
unit.
Any program saved in this way must be reloaded
using the LOAD command, the syntax of which is:
LOAD "C:"
To confuse things slightly, it is also possible to
eLOAD a program which has been saved with the
SA VE command, but it is not possible to LOAD a
eSA VEd program.
LIST and ENTER
As we said earlier, these commands are less
commonly used but can be very useful.
LIST will save a program to the cassette in a
different form from that used by SA VE and
eSAVE.
Both SAVE and eSAVE save programs in
tokenised form, that is, any BASIC command
within the program are saved as single character

Atari XL Specifications

General

Brand	Atari
Model	XL
Category	Desktop
Language	English