Walt Perko <
r4r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 7:42:19 PM UTC-7, Bob Campbell wrote:
>> Bob Campbell <nu...@none.none> wrote:
>>> Walt Perko <
r4r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Monday, September 19, 2022 at 5:31:47 PM UTC-7, Bob Campbell wrote:
>>>>
>>> The program you are using is designed to run on a screen. Not to create a
>>> text file.
>>>
>> Yeah, I knew the above would not come out correctly. It was a large V
>> originally.
>>
>> But you still get the idea.
>
> On the Model 100 screen I can see the sine wave moving up the screen as
> the program runs, on my Altair computer the program does a reasonable
> sinewave on the terminal screen attached via serial port to the Altair console.
>
> That is why I'm expecting the program to create a sine wave on the
> terminal screen attached to the serial port of the Model 100.
>
> So the "TAB" feature in Model 100 TRS-80 basic doesn't send a series of
> spaces like Microsoft BASIC-80?
Not when going out the serial port using OPEN FOR OUTPUT AS 1. That is a
text file. Again, there is no cursor to position in a text file.
SPACE$(X) creates X number of spaces.