[Wolves] ChrisP saw this and thought of you :)

Philip Harper ph004h7245 at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed May 16 12:41:25 BST 2007


Ah, I new someone would remember the command!

James Turner wrote:
> Philip Harper wrote:
>   
>> Well, I'll be 29 next week, and I can remember when command lines and
>> text menus were all we had, anyone remember the command to load from the
>> 5 1/4 drive on the commodore 64....it went something like load *, (list
>> of cryptic characters I can't remember)....
>>     
>
> It's been a while, but I believe:
>
> DLOAD "<filename>"
>
> Will load the specified file from disc. (Short for "Disk load" of
> course). Alternately:
>
> LOAD "<filename>"[,<device>,[<load-action>]]
>
> e.g.:
>
> LOAD "*",8,1
>
> * in the filename acts as a wildcard character, and specifying a
> filename of just * would load the first file stored on the device.
> <device> should be 8 for floppy disc, defaults to using tape drive if
> absent. Load action of 1 will load to a memory address stored in the
> file's meta data, default behaviour is to use BASIC program workspace if
> absent.
>
>
>
> Anyway, back to the ol' shell prompt...
>
>
>
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