Notes on loading ASC programs...
 
You can load an ASCII STOS progam which has been saved with the extension ASC.
If there is a program currently in memory you must NEW it as STOS will merge
an ASC program with the current one. This is useful if you want to copy code
from one program to another. Note, however, that when doing this if the code to
be merged in from disc shares line numbers with the current program you will
lose the original lines that are dupilcated on the new code.
 
I save programs as ASC for two reasons.
 
 1. As long as there are no memory banks (as these are NOT saved with ASC
    programs) the ASC program takes up less memory on disc than the BAS
    equivalent.
 
 2. Any extensions used which you do not have will have the command name
    where as the BAS version will say something like extension #M. This way
    you can get an idea of what the command is and how you can replace it.
 
I hope that helps you in your use of ASCII programs but REMEMBER that memory
banks which are stores as data will NOT be saved with ASC programs.
 
 
 
Martin Cubitt    1st August 1993
