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looking for a program on the tape. When it finds one, the Plus/4 prints
FOUND "filename". You can hit the O key to LOAD. Once the pro
gram is LOADed, you can RUN, LIST, or change it.
You can also type the word LOAD followed by a program name, which
is most often a name in quotes ("program name"). The name may be
followed by a comma (outside of the quotes) and a number (or numeric
variable), which acts as a device number to determine where the pro
gram is stored (disk or tape)- If there is no number given, the Plus/4
assumes device number 1, which is the cassette tape recorder.
The other device commonly used with the LOAD command is usually
the disk drive, which is device number 8.
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EXAMPLES:
LOAD
LOAD "HELLO"
LOAD A$
LOAD-HELLO-,8
Reads in the next
program on tape
Searches tape fora
program called
HELLO, and LOADS
if found.
Looks for a program
whose name is in the
variable called A$.
Looks for the pro
gram called HELLO
on the disk drive,
or the program
last accessed.
The LOAD command can be used within a BASIC program to find
and RUN the next program on a tape. This is called chaining.
The RELOCATE FLAG determines where in memory a program is
loaded. A relocate flag of 0 tells the Plus/4 to load the program at the
start of the BASIC program area, and a flag of 1 tells it to LOAD from
the point where it was SAVEd. The default value of the relocate flag is 0.
This is generally used only when loading machine language programs.
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