Use Pro/File to Document Your Programs

A use for Pro/File I haven’t seen mentioned is on a backup computer with 16K–printer optional–as an index of variables while “composing” a program. I’m sure we’ve all had the fustration of being interrupted from programming by calls to food or bed from sheer exhaustion, and then have to back track for hours in order to remember what a particular variable or program line was intended to do.

If the TV’s channel 2 is used for one computer and a UHF channel is used for the other, then all that is needed is a simple switch of the channel selector to flip from one display to the other. I find no interference or other problems doing this, and that it is a useful way to keep track of what’s going on in a program.