Hello Sing.
Thanks for making your simple pgridder avail on Grimy's. While studying the code I noticed the saveme call (Line 112):
send "'" & $current_sector & "=saveme*"
unless I'm mistaken, the save sector needs to be padded with leading Zero's.
for the benifit of others here's what should preceede the savme call:

 
 

You may try this instead :

# Vid Kid/CareTaker
# this is to pad for saveme
GetInput $maintarget " What Sector ?"
SetVar $killtarget $maintarget
GetLength $maintarget $tmp3
SetVar $tmp1 "0"
SetVar $tmp "1"
   SetVar $temp (5 - $tmp3)
   IF ($temp = "0")
   Goto :end
   End
   While ($tmp <= $temp)
   MergeText $tmp1 $maintarget $maintarget
   Add $tmp 1
   End
   Subtract $tmp "1"
   Echo ANSI_11 "* " $temp " - " $tmp3 " - " $maintarget

:end
Halt

change things as needed , this was pulled from one of my scripts , so variables wont match yours but are easly changable.

enjoy
p.s. as a side note , ck_saveme will work with or without the leading zero's
its oz's scripts that require them if memory servers me right.

You don't have to pad it w/ 0s. It'll work either way.

No idea if Oz's works w/ or w/o, but since you can't use a twarp saveme w/ a planet gridder that's a bit moot. My saveme works fine w/o it and I know CK's does as well since people use it all the time.

Cool, a scripting session. Regardless of what Sing says, I just wanted to post the above routines using a while loop.

setVar $save_sector $current_sector
getLength $save_sector $length
while ($length < 5)
     setVar $save_sector "0" & $save_sector
     getLength $save_sector $length
end
send "'" & $save_sector & "=saveme*"
send "'pickup " & $current_sector & " ::*"

+EP+

Well, here's the thing...

Why waste the CPU cycles doing that when it's absolutely unneccessary in any form? If you're using a saveme that is so horribly inflexible as to break when it misses a 0... it's time to write a new one.

And don't use the pickup line, you don't need it if you're using a half-modern version of saveme. Save your poor corpies the added scroll.

Incase the name didn't... uhm, tip people off. I called it "simple" pgridder, not... "complex example of code that does stuff that's not really needed but looks pretty if you're a programmer" pgridder .

If you happen to use  the rev's saveme  it reqires the pickup

For some reason I've never gotten ck's to work w/o the leading zeros --I see now was probably due to fatfingeritis.
Ya; it's a simple pgridder --on the surface.. but there sure is some hidden complexity in it (ie landing safely using the backspace char (Pound-8, which you hinted at in your macro tutorial .
Anyway, thanks again for posting it. Maybe oneday I'll be brave enough to post something uncompiled.
 

Hey, you forgot the: Add $length 1  ...lol j/k. 
I've often wondered the efficiency of Script cmd (function calls), for example  how C/C++ equates ++A down to INC AX (increment accumilator register)... not only that but also how GOSUB, Array Memory Allocation, are handled (better to keep Subroutines close or even inline, or, shrink Static Array(s) when done with them)
can't wait to test these things out with Timer function in the new twx version!
 

Like he said, when was the last time Rev updated his saveme?

I hope I'm not mistaken , but I believe SupG's script out ther also requires the pickup ..
but for compatibilty reasons this padding was added and pickup left in to many of the attack and save scripts.

As far as a saveme for a pgridder .. there isnt any reason another corpie couldn't do a twarp-bwarp save if your podded ..

But thats just me.
Great examples guys.