Radio Shack TRS-80 model III Owner's Manual page 19

OPERATION
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
(ENTER)
The Computer
will
load
and
start
basic.
First,
it
will
ask
two
questions.
Press (ENTER)
in
response
to
each
of
them.
HOW MANY
FILES?
CENTER)
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:
NEN
(ENTER)
to
erase
it
from memory.
(This
is
to
prove
that
it
can be
retrieved
from
the disk
file.)
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