Re: 1980 Basic Sought

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:55:55 -0400, "Tom Lake" <tlake@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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><thomas.mertes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On 15 Mrz., 03:29, "Tom Lake" <tl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> <ArarghMail803NOS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:06:08 -0500, "Judson McClendon"
>>> > <ju...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> > Well, considering that:
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>>> > The following QuickBasic keywords are not sup****ted in QBasic:
>>>
>>> >    ALIAS       EVENT       LOCAL         SETMEM
>>> >    BYVAL       $INCLUDE    SADD          SIGNAL
>>> >    CDECL       Int86       Interrupt     UEVENT
>>> >    COMMAND$    Int86X      InterruptX
>>>
>>> The help file is wrong about one of those.  SADD really
>>> is sup****ted in QBasic.
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>> I did not find SADD in my MS-DOS QBasic programmer's reference.
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>SADD gives a string's address.  It eliminates having to do a DEF SEG and
a
>VARPTR.
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VARPTR on a string returns the address of the descriptor, which
woudn't be all that useful.
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