Commodore PC - Load

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Load
Purpose:
Loads a file into memory.
Syntax:
L[address [drive: record record]]
Comments:
Set BX:GX to the number of bytes read. The file must have been
named either when you started debug or with the N (name)
command. Both the debug invocation and the N command format
a filename properly in the normal format of a File Control Block
at CS:5C.
If you use the L (load) command without any parameters, debug
loads the file into memory beginning at address CS:100 and sets
BX:CX to the number of bytes loaded. If you type the L command
with an address parameter, loading begins at the memory location
specified by the address. If you use the L command with all
parameters included, absolute disk sectors are loaded, instead
of a file.
Each record is taken from the specified drive-, (the drive desig
nation is numeric here: 0 = A:, 1 =B:, 2 = C:, etc.). Debug begins
loading with the first specified record, and continues until the
number of sectors in the second record have been loaded.
Example:
Suppose once you have started debug that you type the following
commands:
-NFILE.COM
Now, to loadfile.com, you would simply type the L command.
Debug would then load the file and display the debug prompt.
Suppose now that you want to load only portions of a file or cer
tain records from a disk. To do this, you would type the following:
L04BA:100 2 OF 6D
(L)oad
Using the Load
command
Debug would then load 109 (6D hex) records, beginning with
logical record number 15, into memory beginning at address
04BA:0100. Then, once it had loaded the records, debug would
simply return the hyphen (-) prompt.