It's exactly that. It forces the copyright into the compiled object.
Without the CHGVAR, it never makes it into the object.
On 11/2/2022 8:08 PM, smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Without the CHGVAR, the compiler drops the variable from the program and
thus drops the copyright line from it. What purpose it has beyond that, I
don't know unless it is just a way to force the copyright to be part of the
compiled code.
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Subject: Puzzling stuff at the end of standard QSTRUP
Does anybody know what these lines are all about, at the end of the
"as-delivered" QSTRUP:
NOWTRS:
RETURN
CHGVAR VAR(&CPYR) VALUE(&CPYR)
Now, clearly the label "NOWTRS" means "no writers," not "Now TRS-80."
But then, we have a RETURN, right before a CHGVAR that appears to be
equivalent to a NO-OP.
Seems kind of pointless.
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