The Microcontroller Idea Book - Jan Axelson's Lakeview Research

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Line Editing
After typing a few commands, you may discover some of BASIC-52’s line-editing abilities.
While typing a line, you can correct mistakes by deleting back to the mistake and retyping.
In Procomm Plus, if you select VT100 terminal emulation (under Setup menu, Terminal
Options), you can use either the DELETE or BACKSPACE key to delete. With the Windows
terminal, you must use the DELETE key (not BACKSPACE). Many communications programs
allow you remap the keyboard, so you can select whatever delete key you wish.
Once you press ENTER, you can’t edit a line you’ve typed, unless you retype it from the
beginning.
BASIC-52 treats upper and lower-case characters the same. In most cases, spaces are
ignored, so you can include them or not as you wish.
Running a Program
Here is a very simple program to try:
10 FOR I=1 to 10
20 PRINT I
30 NEXT I
40 END
Enter each of the lines, including the line numbers. BASIC-52 automatically stores the
program in RAM. To run the program, type RUN. You should see this:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
To view the program lines, type
LIST
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