Re: LOAD command (Was: Disk drive questions)

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_cyberspace.org)
Date: 2002-11-20 06:33:55

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Marko [iso-8859-1] Mäkelä wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:10:29PM -0500, William Levak wrote:
> > Even a simple LOAD or SAVE uses the command channel, although you normally
> > don't see it from BASIC.
> 
> Are you sure of this?  I thought LOAD would be equivalent to OPEN1,8,0,"FILE"
> and SAVE to OPEN1,8,1,"FILE".  I may remember the secondary addresses wrong.

You're right.  I did some tests and the command channel is not affected.
Apparently, all the result information comes from the status byte.




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