HINTS-27 JUST FOR FUN - Go to BASIC and on the empty screen, type P.$&FE45 and press ENTER. Puzzled ? I think so. See the last line on this sheet. Z88 "STATES" Various books on the Z88 make reference to the position or current condition of the machine. This should clarify what is meant by these :- COMA - Shut down. DOZE - Running but no display ( as when saving to the EPROM ). SNOOZE - Display on, waiting for a keyboard input. ACTIVE - display on, program running. CATALOGUING FILES Some books have some of the short-cuts when cataloguing files in a RAM. Here are ALL of the relevant ones :- After selecting the CATALOGUE FILE command you can enter these as the NAME Just ENTER See all files in the current directory //* & " All files in the current RAM :*//* " " All files in all RAMs :*//file " A file called "file" anywhere. file* " All files starting with file *.txt " All files with txt extension *.* " All files having an extension. QUESTION - Put these two lines in Basic :- 10 #CLI ARE YOU GOING? 20 INPUT "WHERE",N$ EXACTLY like that. Why, when it is RUN do we get - WHERE ARE YOU GOING? I don't know - that's why I'm asking. Try this one - 10 *CLI I AM OVER HERE 20 INPUT "WHERE ARE YOU?",XYZ$ FAIL This message in the top right corner of your screen is often disregarded once a Soft Reset has been made and everything seems to be right. It can however be more serious than people think. The internal memory may have been corrupted and at some time, quite unconnected with what is going on at the time, there can be a "crash", requiring a HARD reset. She was the lady-friend of Richard Russell who did the Z88 BASIC. Jack Lawrie 15 Sycamore Grove Southam Leamington Spa CV33 0EY Back to HINTS-INDEX