Date   : Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:04:05 -0800 (PST)
From   : Angus Duggan <angus@...>
Subject: Re: Basic compiler

Angus Duggan writes:
>"Real variables are written as &FF followed by four bytes of mantissa and one
>byte exponent."
>
>This is from a 1983 printing of the User Guide, referring to BASIC 1 (it
>doesn't even have OSCLI or the other BASIC 2 features). 

Ah, bollocks. I just re-read the original mail and realised I'd read "file"
instead of "memory". No, there are no direct operators in early BASICs for
read/write of real variables to memory. Sorry.

a.