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Thank you everyone
Andrew

Thank you PJW
AJ



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Does anyone know if I can copy a block of lines in a loaded program so I get a second copy later on in the same program?
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For short snippets of code I would normally just add a digit to each line I want to copy. If your code is numbered, say, 100 to 1000 and you want to ...

Dilwyn

When I entered the command SBASIC I got an error message so I tried the following and that seemed to work too:

LOAD mybigprogram_bas
SAVE ram1_tmp_bas;line1 TO line2 (line number range to be copied)
NEW
LOAD ram1_TMP_bas
RENUM as required
MERGE mybigprogram_bas

I guess that does about the ...

Dilwyn

That is super useful. Thank you very much. I think I will try the ram disc idea

Andrew

I have looked in the toolkit manual but the forum has classifed me as "ROM Dongle" for a reason
AJ

Last time I was on here I learnt the command DLINE from the toolkit. Thank you.

Does anyone know if I can copy a block of lines in a loaded program so I get a second copy later on in the same program?

Thank you

Andrew

Thanks both

Is there a command to delete a block of lines from the loaded program?

That is really helpful. Thank you
AJ

I got quill working on the vdrive and I now understand what I was doing wrong.
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What I tried first and did not work:
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MKDIR 'QUILL'
CD 'QUILL'
MKIMG 'QUILL'
LD 3,'QUILL'
FORMAT MDV3_QUILL
This created a blank quill.mdv ...