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From: wjr@utcs.UUCP (William Rucklidge)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Question: I/O to 1541 and BASIC tokens
Message-ID: <278@utcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 01:13:49 EST
Article-I.D.: utcs.278
Posted: Thu Dec 13 01:13:49 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 03:16:22 EST
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Reply-To: wjr@utcs.UUCP (William Rucklidge)
Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX
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Summary: 

> Question 3: What makes channels "0" and "1" special? The 1541 says that
> 	they're used for loads and saves, but could someone be more
> 	specific?

The special feature of secondary address numbers 0 and 1 is that when a
file is opened using one of these channels, the default file type
is 'PRG'. If any other channel number (except 15) is used, the default
file type is 'SEQ'. These defaults can be overridden, and it is quite
possible to type:
load "seqfile,s",8
which would treat the file 'seqfile' as a normal program file, and load it.

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