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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Troll
  2. From: Troll@cup.portal.com (rf banzai tolli)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
  4. Subject: Re: 2 Q's: BMI & SAVE@
  5. Message-ID: <74266@cup.portal.com>
  6. Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 07:40:15 PST
  7. Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  8. Distribution: usa
  9. References: <1993Jan17.192438.12044@netcom.com> <C17In9.28u@fulcrum.co.uk>
  10.   <1993Jan22.062624.23025@netcom.com> <30370@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
  11.   <1993Jan24.043922.20002@netcom.com>
  12. Lines: 9
  13.  
  14. Grin- When *I* scratch a file, the new one always turns out to be corr
  15. something!  I prefer a line like:
  16. FI$="FILENAME":OLD$="OLD/"+LEFT$(FI$,12):OPEN15,DR,15,"S0:"+OLD$:
  17. PRINT#15,"R0:"+OLD$="=0:"+FI$:CLOSE15:SAVE (FI$)
  18.  
  19. Thatway you always have at least the pervious version on disk in case
  20. Murphy comes calling!
  21.  
  22. -RFT-
  23.