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Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector

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Brian Patrie wrote:
> On 2016-02-22 23:46, gids.rs@sasktel.net wrote:
>>> b) The first letter has to be an uppercase or lowercase letter, right?
>>
>> Lowercase letters can be entered in, but are always converted to
>> uppercase.
> 
> This is only true of the IIc and later (incl the Enhanced IIe). The 
> original IIe and earlier firmwares do not convert to uppercase. (Of 
> course the II, and II+ keyboards don't produce lowercase, but there were 
> software ways.)

Also, don't forget the feature that the Apple IIe had that would allow you
to type the Applesoft tokens in uppercase, but make strings between double
quotes (") in lower-case. What key command activated this? I think it was
Escape-Control-R

Yes, it was called Uppercase Restrict.

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]DF$
The Marina IP stack for Apple II--
http://marina.a2hq.com/

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Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2016-02-20 20:33 -0800
  Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector Michael Pohoreski <michael.pohoreski@gmail.com> - 2016-02-22 13:58 -0800
    Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector "Anton Treuenfels" <teamtempest@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-22 17:55 -0600
    Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2016-02-22 21:46 -0800
      Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector Benoit0123 <bgilon@free.fr> - 2016-02-23 15:33 +0000
        Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2016-02-23 08:09 -0800
          Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector Benoit0123 <bgilon@free.fr> - 2016-02-23 18:08 +0000
            Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2016-02-23 12:52 -0600
              Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector Michael Pohoreski <michael.pohoreski@gmail.com> - 2016-02-23 12:15 -0800
                Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2016-02-24 00:46 -0600
            Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2016-02-23 21:47 -0800
      Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector Brian Patrie <bpatrie@bellsouth.spamisicky.net> - 2016-02-28 04:51 -0600
        Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2016-02-29 23:09 +0000
          Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector Michael Pohoreski <michael.pohoreski@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 09:05 -0800
            Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2016-03-01 18:04 +0000
              Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector Michael Pohoreski <michael.pohoreski@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 12:22 -0800
    Re: Streamlining Applesoft - The garbage collector Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2016-02-23 12:40 -0600

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