Lost for a few years, this fine set of utilities
should be in every programmers disk box. Boot up the disk and you have a
range of commands to use from Basic that will help with many programming
tasks. There are ten commands of which the most useful are DIR which
displays a disk directory without going to DOS; DEL will remove a single
line or block of lines from a Basic program; REN instantly renumbers a
program to any starting line and increment of your choice, you won't
believe how quick it is!; CHANGE alters the name of any variable so if
you have a program which you are trying to unpick you can identify a
variable and give it a more meaningful name throughout the program;
STRIP takes out REMs and reduces the size of your programs; LISTING
prints out programs on an Epson compatible with all special characters
shown; VAL coverts between Hex, Decimal and Binary; LVAR gives you a
complete listing of all variables used in a program and where they
occur. Overall an incredibly powerful set of programming utilities that
every programmer will find a use for. Even if you only use one or two
commands you will find your programming takes on a new ease and you
won't have to sort through your library trying to find individual
routines. Great stuff!
Boot with Basic.
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