Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou4b.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!ariel!hou4b!ribl From: ribl@hou4b.UUCP (R Blechman) Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Subject: Question: I/O to 1541 and BASIC tokens Message-ID: <1222@hou4b.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 13:19:03 EST Article-I.D.: hou4b.1222 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 Lines: 37 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