# Terminal I/O Statements

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_Added October 2024_

Terminal/keyboard input and output is actually just a variation of [Sequential File I/O](sequentialfiles.md) (e.g. INPUT, PRINT, ...) with the only difference being that the terminal channel is always 0. For terminal output statements, the channel parameter is optional; omitting it is the same as specifying a channel value of zero. For terminal input, the channel parameter must be omitted and optionally replaced by a prompt. For example:

map1 name\$,s,20

input "What's your name? ", name\$    \! (channel replaced by prompt)

print #0, "hello"; name\$             \! (explicit channel 0)

print "Goodbye"                      \! (implicit channel 0)



See [Sequential File I/O](sequentialfiles.md) for further details.