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.