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Re: Name of a program

From Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: Name of a program
Date 2026-04-18 10:08 +0100
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Message-ID <5ccb6262dfbob@sick-of-spam.invalid> (permalink)
References (4 earlier) <F4l*XoiEA@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> <5ccaee3398bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> <5ccb038169News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> <5ccb161bb5bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> <5ccb276441News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk>

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In article <5ccb276441News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
   Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <5ccb161bb5bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>,
>    Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:
> > In article <5ccb038169News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
> >    Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> > > In article <5ccaee3398bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>,
> > >    Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:

[Snip]

> That applies to code I write as well ... and some using BASIC, and
> some BASIC Assembler. And there are things you can do to
> investigate what has gone wrong.  If you want some help with this,
> please email me directly.

> Is your debugging simply using the facilities of the BASIC
> Interpreter to display variable values? 

Mostly.

> How do you display register values from the assembler?

For the most part I don't. I do store a register in a particular
temporary address sometimes. A list of important variables and their
values are squirted to a file when the assembler has finished. I also
tend to use conditional swi 256+7 to find out where code is getting
to.

> How do you display blocks of storage?

!SpyGlass or !StrongED.

I'm sure I know what you're going to say. I should be using Reporter.

I don't want to come across as a moaner but my honest problem is I'm
not the sharpest knife in the box and many, many things seem to be
beyond my understanding. An example is Rool Development suite, got
it, can't get anywhere with it. 

Likewise Reporter, way beyond me. Unfortunately, I'm limited in what
I can learn and understand not helped by my dislike of reading which
I find hard work.

> > So I have another program of mine which sits on the icon bar and
> > I drop the Basic prog on to that. This opens the Basic
> > environment and loads my new code into it. I now work old style
> > in Basic to get the bugs out. at some point i hit F12 which saves
> > the resultant machine code.

> So this other program knows the full file name of what it is about
> to load into BASIC? 

It may well do. I wrote it decades ago and it's in Basic.  

> So can it set a variable name or something with the program name?

It would seem likely I agree, I'll have a look...

> I am still unsure what you need the program name for, and how you
> want to use it!

Okay. 

My source files follow this pattern...

major changes and consolidated code..
SF14, SF15, SF16, SF17,
Then small changes and testing...
SF18_d02_01, SF18_d02_02, SF18_d04_01
When these changes do what I want it will become SF18.

Sometimes I get confused, I've got 3 or 4 Assembled !RunImages and I
notice a fault I'd not spotted earlier. I find some RunImages don't
have the issue but I've only got the date stamp to identify the
source file that last produced code without a fault.

If I could look at a fixed location in my code and it contained the
name of the source file......

Cheers,

Bob.

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Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-16 17:34 +0100
  Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-16 18:17 +0100
    Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-16 19:18 +0100
      Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-16 22:29 +0100
      Re: Name of a program Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 10:45 +0100
        Re: Name of a program Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-04-17 11:43 +0100
          Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-17 12:59 +0100
            Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 16:52 +0100
              Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-17 20:15 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 23:24 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-18 10:08 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-04-18 10:56 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-18 11:13 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-18 13:50 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-18 15:29 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-18 16:30 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-04-18 17:54 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-18 18:06 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-18 18:51 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-18 19:08 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-18 19:36 +0100
        Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-17 12:08 +0100
          Re: Name of a program Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 14:12 +0100
            Re: Name of a program Tank <webmaster@tankstage.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 15:09 +0100
              Re: Name of a program Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 19:35 +0100
              Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-17 20:17 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 23:30 +0100
      Re: Name of a program Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2026-04-18 11:39 +0100
        Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-18 13:55 +0100

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