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   From: rflowers@Tinbowlinggreen.com   
      
   "Knut Roll-Lund"  wrote in message   
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   > Anyway it would be no problem to decode the basic with spaces (like Apple   
   > II does), if you have it tokenized. I tend to want to keep an ascii   
   > version of a basic program as it was written. If the program was loaded   
   > into a TRS-80 again some lines might then be too long and fail (On the   
   > TRS-80 basic programs might be saved and loaded as ascii both on disk and   
   > cassette, default is tokenized).   
   >   
   > Knut   
      
   That reminds me of another 'trick' on the TRS-80 Color Computer. There was   
   some limit on the number of characters per line (probably 255 or something   
   close.) The cram some of those 'one-liners' in, you had to type as much as   
   you could, ENTER the line of code, the edit it. Then you would be able to   
   finish with a few more characters. I take it that this was because when you   
   were first typing it in, there was nothing tokenized. After entering the   
   line, though, you would gain some extra characters because the BASIC   
   commands would become tokenized.   
      
   Then there was the odd abbreviations in Level I, where you could use P. for   
   PRINT (or was it PR.?). Would anyone know if that was just to help with poor   
   typists, or did Level I not tokenize like most other BASIC's?   
      
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