DEL

Removes lines from a program stored in memory

Implemented by: a2int, ataplus, msatari, colorext

With variations: atxl (statement)

Also written as:

Easily understood as a contraction, DEL has been often implemented for a different purpose than that of DELETE.

In Tandy CoCo II BASIC, at least, DEL is an edition command for erasing program lines.

In Atari BASIC XL, DEL is a statement, used within a program for erasing its own lines! It can remove a single line or a range, if given a second parameter separated by a comma:

250 DEL 1000,2000

In the example above, the deleted range includes line 2000.

• https://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/BASIC:BASIC , last check 2024-04-02
• A Reference Manual for BASIC XL. Optimized Systems Software. San Jose, USA, 1980.