Q-Save with Pro/File

John Willi, Louisville, KY, and Phil Williams, Wilmington, DE, sent these instructions to make PRO/FILE work with Q-SAVE.

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)