Re: 1980 Basic Sought

On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:36:54 GMT,  wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:21:32 +0000 (UTC), "Auric__"
> <not.my.real@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:43:27 GMT,  wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:55:55 -0400, "Tom Lake" <tlake@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>SADD gives a string's address.  It eliminates having to do a DEF
>>>>SEG and a VARPTR.
>>>
>>> VARPTR on a string returns the address of the descriptor, which
>>> woudn't be all that useful.
>>
>>PowerBasic has STRPTR, which returns the address of the actual text. 
>>Quite handy on occasion.
> That's what SADD does.
> SSEG returns the strings segment (PDS 7+ far strings)
> SSEGADD returns a far address to the string data.

Sorry, guess I'm not tracking very well. Too much blood in the caffeine 
system again.

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