merging BASIC programs - a utility program to merge two distinct basic programs and making use of utility software from the OS disk 2

merging BASIC programs elektor June 1984 As a programmer"s skills grow there is more and more temptation to use scraps from different programs to make a new one. This is an interesting idea but it is not immediately obvious how it could be put into practice. The program given here, however, was written to do just this. It is a utility designed for the Junior Computer with DOS that can be adapted for other systems as long as the DOS (or BASIC) used has an input/output distributor that allows the memory to be considered as a peripheral device, as the Junior does. merging BASIC programs a utility program to merge two distinct basic programs and making use of utility software from the OS disk 2 The purpose of the program given here is to merge different BASIC programs or to place them one after the other. This alone makes it interesting and it is doubly so as it uses an interesting property of the Junior Computer"s DOS and BASIC; namely that the memory can be used as an input/output d...