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title: "Q-Save with Pro/File"
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excerpt: "John Willi, Louisville, KY, and Phil Williams, Wilmington, DE, sent these instructions to make PRO/FILE work with Q-SAVE. LOAD Q-SAVE LOAD a cleared copy of \"ZX\" CHANGE line 25 so it reads: 25 IF XS=\"SAVE\" THEN GOTO 4050 ADD these lines: 4050 CLS 4060 PRINT USR 32383 4070 GOTO 17 Willi comments, \"I Dimmed D$…"
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# Q-Save with Pro/File

[John Willi](http://localhost/indiv/john-willi/), Louisville, KY, and [Phil Williams](http://localhost/indiv/phil-williams/), Wilmington, DE, sent these instructions to make PRO/FILE work with [Q-SAVE](http://localhost/product/qsave/).

1. LOAD Q-SAVE
2. LOAD a cleared copy of “ZX”
3. CHANGE line 25 so it reads: 25 IF XS=”SAVE” THEN GOTO 4050
4. ADD these lines: 4050 CLS 4060 PRINT USR 32383 4070 GOTO 17

Willi comments, “I Dimmed D$ to 9700 characters to allow 100 bytes for the NOT search and 500 for the file count. One could otherwise probably increase D$’s length. Load time is 27 seconds!”

Williams adds, “According to the Q-SAVE instructions, the proper save command is PRINT USR 32383. Editing PRO/FILE’s line 25 to:

```
25 IF X$="SAVE" THEN PRINT USR 32383 
```

successfully saves PRO/FILE but the program breaks with a 5/25 error report. This is probably due to the fact that Q-SAVE completes a save or load operation by printing a number on the next available line and PRO/FILE’s Main Menu uses all 22 lines. (has anybody tried to edit line 25 so it says: IF XS=”SAVE” THEN PRINT AT 6,0; USR 32383 -ed)