Jeff-20 wrote:I am suprised that so many use the programmer's aid cart. I have one, but never really explored it. What are the main benefits of it?
RENUMBER and MERGE are quite useful, I like the AUTO line numbering too. FIND and CHANGE are very useful for editing larger programs. You can DUMP all the variables in your programs to a list, very handy for debugging.
There are a lot of Control-key combinations that enhance editing quite a bit. I like CTRL-Q and CTRL-A particularly. You can scroll up and down BASIC listings with them-- very useful.
Being able to program function keys is great, of course, particularly with Schema's cart. I'll define f1 to equal "@$" for example, to get a disk directory-- just like JiffyDOS.
It's just a great utility all around. Once you start using it, you'll wonder how you ever got by without it.