I wished to upgrade a three page essay that I had written several montns ago on the Textwriter word processor. The only catch was I am now using Tasword and preferred using it over Textwriter. I did not relish the idea of retyping the essay, so I scanned the leader of the Textwriter text code with HEADSCAN (SYNTAX, Sept 1984) and noted the address and byte count of the essay. I then scanned a Tasword text code tape to find the loading address. The two addresses were, of course, different. The Tasword text code is loaded to address 33280.
I loaded Tasword and broke into BASIC and entered:
LOAD ""CODE 33280 with the Textwriter code in the tape recorder. After loading, I reentered Tasword and much to my happiness, there was the essay I had written so long ago with a different program! I had to reformat it of course, but that was nothing compared to re-typing it in. It now works the same as a Tasword typed program.