Date   : Tue, 06 Dec 1994 08:28:09 EST
From   : Stephen Quan <quan@...>
Subject: Re: CHAIN in BASIC

> Hi all,
> 
> On my BBC emulator, if you try to CHAIN a file which doesn't exist,
> it will still proceed to run the program already in memory. Does a
> normal B Model do this? (I'm using BASIC2) I don't think it should.
> 
> Chris Lam.

I thought CHAIN would use the OSFILE as the *LOAD command.  Anyone
correct me if I am wrong?  It might make use a few other commands
in OSFILE and OSWORD, I am not sure, it's worth trapping the OS and
see what it does.

On my real beeb, CHAIN "WHATEVER", will load WHATEVER into PAGE
followed by the equivalent of typing RUN.  My beeb has BASIC 2 and
DFS.

Stephen Quan.