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From: ribl@hou4b.UUCP (R Blechman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Question: I/O to 1541 and BASIC tokens
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Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 13:19:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 11 13:19:03 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 06:03:31 EST
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
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Question 1: Can any one tell me what values are used for BASIC tokenization?
  (or at least where i can find this out?)

Question 2: Why and when do i have to "initialize" the disk drive.
    for instance...If i do the following:
	10 open 2,8,2,"$"
	20 rem *** perform routine (9000) to prints the directory
	30 rem *** (uses get# to read)
	40 gosub 9000
	50 close 2
	60 end

	then:
		run this program.
		switch disks (to another one that HAS a directory)
		run this program again.
	I get an disk I/O error about the disk being uninitialized.

	I know i can get around this by adding:
	15 open 15,8,15
	20 print#15,"I"
	55 close 15

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?

If some of these seem obvious, then please make it so for me too,
since even after having read the commodore documentaion several times
these remain somewhat of a mystery to me.
Thanks,
-ron blechman
hou4b!ribl