Help with simple TI-84 program?

Chris is right on the money; both Disp and Output( do what you want to do.

Disp requires one argument minimum. Doing:

:Disp "HI"

...will print the string "HI" on the next available line. You could also do:

:Disp "HI",7,A

...which will print the string "HI" on the next line, the number 7 on the next one, and then the value of variable A on the one after that.

Output( requires three arguments, as follows:

Output(row,column,value)

So if you wanted it to print "text" on the third row, fourth column, doing this will work:

:Output(3,4,"text")

The great thing about Output( is that it wraps text. So if the value is too long to fit on the screen, it'll automatically overflow onto the next line. Disp will just truncate the string with ellipses if it's too long.

Here's where the two commands are located:

Disp: [Prgm] > I/O > 3:Disp

Output(: [Prgm] > I/O > 6:Output(

use Disp or Output

Disp "This is some text"

- will print on the next line tot he right

Output(3,1,"Different Text

- will print the text on line 3 beginning in the first column

More on TI BASIC can be found in your manual or varios online sources.

Check this out::

http://www.ticalc.org/programming/columns/

10 print "this is a computer"

20 goto 10

run