On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 6:20 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 1:30 PM Brian White <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Why bother with the larger .do copy? Just load "foo" and then save
>> "foo2". Now you have both foo.ba and foo2.ba, both in small tokenized
>> form.
>>
>
>>
> Cause it don’t chooch ;-)
>
> You can only save / give a name to the “unnamed basic program”.
>
> It’s weird but try it.
>
> — John.
>

I believe you. That has the smell of exactly the kind of code trick
somewhere that would be an over-optimization today, trading away too much
functionality or flexibility for too few saved bytes or cpu cycles, but
wasn't uncommon or even wrong at the time when bytes and cpu cycles counted
more.

-- 
bkw

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