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>   >> was building the computers myself, but there was no 'online'
>   >> to get document copies there..   The good old days..   B)

> That would be pretty close to when I started as well, maybe a year later.

>   >While reading , it made me think of oneof my successes at work.

>   >then using the FIND command find the info pertaining to our place and
> PRINT#4
>   >only those lines to our Dot Matrix Printer.

>   >the printer printed a few lines quickly. TADA!

> That was a very good idea.. It used to drive me nuts when people
> would print out a whole manual or something when they just needed a
> small part of it.

> One of the programs I wrote, a lady friend's father at the time was
> starting into writing Basic programs and when he heard what the one
> I wrote would do he wanted to print out the whole thing on paper so
> he could study it I suppose..  That was more than 60 pages of code.
> That was a lot on those old printers that often used ribbons.

> ---
>  * SLMR Rob  * Sometimes loneliness is vastly under-rated



Rob, I read through many BASIC programs I downloaded and learned some tricks
from some of them to help me when writing code.
BASIC and Batch code is as far as I could understand.

I remember thinking that a Scanner would help entering maagazine pages of code
, thinking computer aided whatever would take the hard part of entering several
pages of code but never learned to do that after buying a scanner.
That was years ago in my thinking 

That Print#4 idea was one idea I saw in someones code and I used it a lot in a
Menu to select outpur to Screen or Printer often.
Learned that trick from Commodore 64 code.
Ed
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