★ APPLICATIONS ★ DIVERS ★ ACU PROOFREADER (AMSTRAD COMPUTER USER) ★ |
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Here it is again, at long last: the ACU Proofreader, to keep all you key tappers happy. It must be all of three years ago that Aimo Niemi sent us the Proofreader program from chilly Finland. After some minor refinements, the original proggy made its first showing in ACU back in January 1989. Since then, we've been printing it from time to time, to remind you of what an excellent little aid it is to help out with 10-liners and listings. Those of you who already have it securely saved on their desks, will know what a godsend it is. However, those of you who are seeing it for the first time may need a little instruction on getting the best results out of it. So, here goes. The ACU Proofreader works differently from any other listing checker you may have encountered, in that it uses clever machine code to display a two-figure proofcode enclosed in square brackets every time it encounters a carriage return at the end of a line in Basic. What this means is that you can check an ACU listing line by line as you type it in. Alternatively, you can type a listing in, run ACU Proofreader, and list the program to screen or list 8 to printer. A proofcode will appear on the end of every line. In the listing here, the proofcodes appear at the beginning of each line, to stop sleepy typists from typing them in as part of the program but, in your program, the codes will appear at the end of the line. Also, when using the Proofreader, watch out for the following things.
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