Radio Shack TRS-80 Owner's Manual page 25

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Disk
BASIC
Quick
Instructions for
Using Disk
BASIC
In this
section we'll
"walk you"
through
the
following procedures:
1
Starting
Disk basic
2.
Running
a
simple
program
3.
Saving
a
program
in a
disk
file
4.
Loading
a
program from
a
disk
file
For
programming
information, see the
Disk basic
section of
this
manual.
Here
we
are
showing procedures
only.
Starting
Disk
BASIC
Under trsdos ready,
type:
BASIC
CENTER)
The Computer
will
load
and
start
basic.
First,
it
will ask
two
questions.
Press (ENTER)
in
response
to
each of them.
HON MANY FILES?
(ENTER)
MEMORY SIZE?
(ENTER)
A
heading
will
be displayed,
followed
by:
READY
You
may now
begin using
Disk
basic.
Saving a
Program
You
should
have
a
program
in
memory,
and be
in
Basic's
ready
mode. Type:
SAVE "PROGRAM"
(ENTER)
basic should
now
save the
program
in a disk
file
we
arbitrarily
named
"program."
Any
other
suitable
file
name
would
do.
Loading
a
Program
For
this
sample
session,
we
will
load the
program
just
saved.
First type:
NEW
CENTER")
to
erase
it
from memory.
(This
is
to
prove
that
it
can
be
retrieved
from
the
disk
file.)
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