That, at least, has a simple explanation. As I mentioned, the Disk Files section of the manual was written many moons ago, before BB4W ever existed and, crucially, before the Lowercase Keywords option was available.
Therefore the programs in that section may not be, and in this case definitely isn't, compatible with lowercase keywords. The reason is, of course, that DATA is a keyword so whilst the variable data$ is normally valid, it isn't when lowercase keywords are enabled.
The clue was staring you in the face, had you recognised it: the 'variable' was shown as data$ showing that data was recognised as a keyword.
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