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   Re: 1581 subdirs  more options
   
   
   Author:   Sorex
   Email: sorex@skynet.be
   Date: 1998/12/28
   Forums: comp.sys.cbm
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> By the way, the guide's author mis-used the "<" and ">" symbols.
> That might be what confused Sorex.  The author used them as assembly
> operators, but he put them in a BASIC statement!  ("<" means "take the
> lower [or right] half of a two-byte number.  ">" means "take the upper
> [or higher or left] half.)  He did that same thing when he described
> the "internal disk commands" and the REL file's Position (RECORD#)
> command (at least there, he half-way admitted to what he did).
> What he should have done is to use two statement-functions to split
> the numbers:

no, it only seems to work with print# instead of open (as in the manual?)
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