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File Management
This chapter desctibes the way BASIC 2 Plus manages files
how so load and save files so
disc, and how to list them to she printer. This is done with commands from the File menu.
Thechapseralsoexplains the othercommands on thasmenu, such an Load and Run.. - and
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There is then a description of the ‘Workspace view’ of your program, an overall view of the structure which gives access to the main program and its modules. It is the means of changing the clipboard directly, and is allows you so edit she Debug command screen, as essential toot fordebuggiug whose use wilt be explained in the nextchapter.
The Current Workspace Component
Before an explanation nf the File menu can be given, though, isis necessary to give a loose description of an important concept: the Current Workspace Component. (The precise description is given later in this chapter.)
There are twelve Workspace Components in all — ‘slots’ in your computer’s memory into which ablockofsexscan beloaded. Atany time, one of these Workspace Components is the Current Workspace Component, and isis this that many of the File menu’soptious work on.
If you are new to BASIC 2 Plus, you can think of the Curreni Workspace Component an an area ofyourcomputer’s memory where ysurprogram is stored. Later, when you have more experience and need to write programs with modules and use the Debug command screen, you shouldread the last section of thischapter so getan accurate grasp of she fullpicsure.
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