INTRODUCTION
TO
BASIC
About This Manual
This manual describes BASIC for
MS-DOS.
It is
a
reference
manual, not
a
tutorial. We assume you already know BASIC and
are using this manual to locate information quickly. If you do
not know BASIC,
see
your Radio Shack dealer for the following
book:
Learning
BASZC
for
the
Tandy
200011
000
by David Lien, Cat.
No.
25-1500
Your local bookstore has many books about BASIC available that
are written in tutorial fashion.
Notations
The following notations are used throughout this manual:
CAPITALS Material that you must enter exactly as it
appears.
italics
Words, letters, characters, or values within
command lines you must supply from a set of
acceptable entries. Elsewhere, italics are used
for emphasis.
Items preceding the ellipsis may be repeated.
Items enclosed in brackets are optional.
nnnn
is
a
hexadecimal number.
nnnnn
is an octal number.
A key on your keyboard.
A blank character (ASCII code
32).
For exam-
ple, in
two spaces are between BASIC and PROG.
. . .
(ellipsis)
[I
&Hnnnn
&Onnnnn
[keynameJ
16
BASICMMPROG
7
To Next Page
Loading...
Need help?
General
