On Nov 10, 22:50, Frank McConnell wrote:
> Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com> wrote:
> > All the lines have two spaces between the line number and the code.
> > All, that is, except for a few that have an '_at_' in place of the
second
> > space.
> Noisy line, most likely. I don't think it has any significance.
OK.
> > What does '14 in a PRINT statement
> The leading single quote outside double quotes is how HP BASIC (2000
> and 3000) represent a non-printable character in a string constant.
> So '14 is decimal 14 as a character, or control-N.
Makes sense.
> > What exactly do the first two parameters to the ENTER command do?
> I don't recall the details clearly, I'm thinking one is a limit in
> seconds on the time the user has to reply, and I'm thinking the other
> is used to return the time it took the user to enter the reply.
That makes sense too.
Thanks to everyone who has replied. Now all I need is a machine to run
it on (or an emulator). Any suggestions?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Tue Nov 11 2003 - 16:04:33 GMT