On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:40:42 +0000 (UTC), "Auric__"
<not.my.real@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:36:54 GMT, wrote:
>> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:21:32 +0000 (UTC), "Auric__"
>>>On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:43:27 GMT, wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:55:55 -0400, "Tom Lake" <tlake@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>>>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.
No need to be sorry. I haven't a clue as to what features other
versions of basic have. I only really know the MS 16-bit basics,
BCET, which I wrote, and a little bit about VB, which I don't really
like. :-)
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