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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 22:36:57 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:   
      
   > On 06/03/2025 02:18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> By the way, did you have some kind of line-renumbering utility in your   
   >> BASIC system? That would also fix up GOTOs to correctly branch to the   
   >> renumbered lines.   
   >   
   > AFAIR both HP BASIC and DEC-10 BASIC had line-renumbering (into 10s)   
   > that updated GOTO statements. I believe the DEC-10 BASIC was a direct   
   > descendant of Dartmouth BASIC, so presumably someone in DEC spotted the   
   > need and added the feature.   
      
   I recall on RSTS/E, there was a separate utility program called RESEQ that   
   did this for BASIC-PLUS programs. It was a long time ago, but it could   
   have been that it did not operate on .BAS source code at all, but on the   
   byte-compiled executable .BAC files.   
      
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