Commodore 64 User Manual page 68

LIST OF COMMANDS
Whenever you need to remember which BASIC command to use, refer to this list. These are the
main commands you will need to use on your VIC 20 or Commodore 64 computer.
COMMAND EXPLANATION EXAMPLE
PRINT Instructs program to print message enclosed in PRINT "alphabet message"
quotation marks or to perform a calculation PRINT 6 + 3
To use a program someone else wrote, you need to learn these words:
LOAD Transfers a program into a computer LOAD"FR*",8,1
RUN Begins a program RUN
CONT Abbreviation for CONTINUE CONT
To check or change a program, you need to use these words:
LIST Displays the lines of a program LIST 1-500
REM Abbreviation for REMARK REM BASIC WORDS TO
LEARN
Tl S Abbreviation for TIME STRING Tl S = " 113015"[ 1130:15am)
SAVE Stores program outside a computer, for SAVE"FR*",8,1
example, on a cassette or diskette
To send information to a printer or disk drive, you need these words:
OPEN Opens "phone line" to either disk drive or OPEN4.4
printer
CMD Abbreviation for COMMAND (Sends a typed CMD4
command directly to disk drive or printer)
PRINT# Prints screen message on printer (Use when PRINT#4
done with CMD)
CLOSE Hangs up "phone line" to disk drive or printer CLOSE4
To change keyboard characters to a different picture, use these words:
POKE Sends messages to special memory box POKE <J
CHR S Abbreviation for CHARACTER STRING CHR S[ 14)
PEEK Reads contents of special memory box PEEK(?)
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