[Coco] BASIC format questions

[John W. Linville]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:39:47PM -0600, William Astle wrote:
> The 1Exx bits are, indeed, the address of the next line in the program.
> However, those addresses as stored in the file are not critical information.
> They are recalculated when a program is loaded. You can basically ignore
> them unless you're messing with the Color Basic interpreter itself. The only
> restriction is that they cannot be set to 0000 since that will be
> interpreted as the end of the program. Any non-zero value in the program
> file will work just fine, even if it's all the same value.
> 
> In case I buried the lead there, both LOADM and CLOADM recalculate those
> next line address pointers after reading the program.

<nerdvoice>

Ummm, actually...I think you mean "buried the lede":

http://grammarist.com/usage/lead-lede/

</nerdvoice>

Sorry, but if anything I thought you might actually enjoy this bit
of pedantry... :-)

John
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