[Coco] NT: BASIC educate

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

Thanks, Paul, but the tic is used in the Rainbow and I think is explained in 
the manual, But I have never seen any mention of the question mark.
-Glen
>
>Also, the single tic " ' " is REM.
>
>paul
>
>--- Glen VanDenBiggelaar <glenvdb at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > Hi, all,
> > I thought I would ask a question about BASIC, that's been bugging me for 
>25
> > years. Before I got my first CoCo (83) I learned BASIC on the old PET. 
>one
> > of the first things I discovered was that the "PRINT" statement could be
> > substituted for just "?" (a question Mark). I then used this on many 
>Apple
> > 2's, C64's, and ultimately on the CoCo.
> > My question is:
> > How come this is not documented anywhere in the Tandy Manuals, or in the
> > many programs in Rainbow, etc? Is using this flaky? Is it just bad 
>educate?
> > or is it just to confusing for some? I know its just saving 3 
>keystrokes,
> > but when you are typing in a 6 page program, it does save a bit of time.
> > -Glen
> >
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