HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Nov 11 09:39:37 2003

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Frank Schickel wrote:

> > What does '14 in a PRINT statement, in front of a quoted string, mean
> > (eg in PRINT '14"SULU")? I wondered if it were something like PRINT
> > TAB(14)"... but there are TAB()s elsewhere. A control character,
> > perhaps? If cursor or screen control, are they octal or decimal (I'd
> > guess decimal) and is there a table anywhere?
>
> I'm not sure about this one, but this may have been a way to print
> control characters in a PRINT statement without using CHR$(). If so,
> what would a control-n do on a teletype? I thought it *might* be octal,
> but that would make it a form-feed, which wouldn't make much sense
> in the status sections because it would print <FF>TORPEDOES<FF> and
> then the status, which would waste a *lot* of paper....

I'm pretty sure it's an inline tab specifier. I seem to recall using this
is some form of BASIC on some computer at some point in my past.

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