Re: Looking for the original source code of a famous BASIC program

Date	2013-01-05 14:10 -0600
From	Richard <cavelamb@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.misc
Subject	Re: Looking for the original source code of a famous BASIC program
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On 1/5/2013 7:46 AM, news@rtrussell.co.uk wrote:
> On Jan 5, 9:25 am, Richard<cavel...@earthlink.net>  wrote:
>> On 11/18/2012 5:14 AM, n...@rtrussell.co.uk wrote:
>>> (There's a spurious plus sign in the published listing).
>> Don't think so, Russell...
>
> What do you mean "don't think so"?  The listing clearly has a typo in
> line 2660:
>
> 2660 SR$=+ CHR$&83+"  -1--2--3--4--5--6--7--8-"
>
> The plus sign immediately following the equals is nonsense, and isn't
> valid syntax in BBC BASIC.  The code only makes sense if you omit that
> plus sign:
>
> 2660 SR$= CHR$&83+"  -1--2--3--4--5--6--7--8-"
>
> Richard.
> http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/

Sorry, Richard, you ar right.
I thought it was the one after the 83 you were talking about.

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