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Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard

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In article <a35nq6Fs18U1@mid.individual.net>, David Holden
<SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> wrote:
> The problem is that it *is* broke. It's a hangover form the original BBC
> 6502 Basic and exixts only because with a 6502 and limited RAM code
> could be faster and more compact it you counted down to 0 instead of up
> to a certain number. Hence starting at the end of a string and working
> down the the start was 'better'. 

Ah, I knew there had to be a reason for that back to front stuff.

> The trouble is that it makes the data
> effectively unreadable for anything except BBC Basic. If you use BPUT#
> instead of PRINT# and then GET$# to retrieve a string then the strings
> are just put into the file 'normally' so they can be read by any other
> method, including simply visually.

The latter was the reason I always use the put-get version - while I find
reading handwriting upside down [1] and print backwards relatively easy
reading things the right way round is always easier.

Mind you I've come across commercial software that screwed up the byte
count and thus over-wrote the data separation markers. I had to hack a
"database" used at the place my mother worked to stop it accepting data
strings that were too long. 

[1] Handy in various across the desk situations.

-- 

Steve Pampling

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BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Michael <michaelremerton@gmail.com> - 2012-06-04 03:19 -0700
  Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-06-04 13:37 +0000
    Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> - 2012-06-04 15:49 +0100
      Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Michael <michaelremerton@gmail.com> - 2012-06-04 17:20 -0700
        Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-06-05 06:37 +0000
          Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-06-05 10:13 +0100
            Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-06-05 12:06 +0200
              off-topic -  was Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-06-05 16:25 +0100
          Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-06-15 08:37 +0200
            Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-06-15 08:58 +0000
              Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-06-15 17:37 +0200
                Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-06-15 18:34 +0200
              Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Frank de Bruijn <zuiderduin@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-16 08:25 +0200
                Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-06-16 07:57 +0000
                Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2012-06-16 11:00 +0100
                Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Michael <michaelremerton@gmail.com> - 2012-08-06 01:28 -0700
                Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Frank de Bruijn <zuiderduin@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-16 12:05 +0200
        Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Richard Russell <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2012-06-07 06:29 -0700
      Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk (Jonathan Graham Harston) - 2012-06-05 20:59 +0100

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