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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS);faqs.008


QBasic* Interpreter code unchanged, preserving the investments of
more than a million users worldwide.  New features can be
incrementally added to Microsoft QuickBasic-based applications
without restructuring existing code.

Microsoft Visual Basic for MS-DOS, Standard Edition
    The Standard Edition is designed for hobbyists, engineers,
students and other casual programmers who need an easy,
productive means for creating compiled
MS-DOS-based applications that are portable to and from
Windows.  Features such as a form designer for drawing user
interfaces, a multi-window, syntax checking code editor, rich
debugging tools, and a Toolkit of commonly used dialog boxes give
developers the ability to become productive quickly.
    Learning to use Visual Basic for MS-DOS is made easy
with sample applications, context-sensitive Help with extensive on-
line sample code, and an on-line tutorial.

Microsoft Visual Basic for MS-DOS, Professional Edition
    Microsoft Visual Basic for MS-DOS, Professional Edition,
adds the speed, capacity and database access required by
professional developers.  VARs, ISVs and software consultants
working in both Windows and MS-DOS operating systems will find
the additional power they need to quickly develop a wide range of
full-featured, high-performance applications for MS-DOS.
    In addition to all of the features in the Standard Edition, the
Professional Edition includes the following tools and features:
    *    386/486 Code Optimization.  Compiler option
        generates code tuned for 386/486 microprocessors to
        yield significant performance gains.
    *    Integrated High-speed ISAM (Indexed Sequential
        Access Method) database engine.  Provides fast and
        easy access up to 128MB of data facilitating the
        development of data-centric applications.
    *    Microsoft Overlay Environment (MOVE)
        technology.  Enables developers to write overlaid MS-
        DOS-based applications that use up to 16MB of
        overlaid code.  MOVE automatically takes advantage
        of EMS/XMS memory if available or swaps to a disk if not.
    *    Alternate Math Library.  Accelerates floating-point
        math operations up to 300 percent when running on a
        computer without a math co-processor.
    *    Charting, On-line Help, Setup and Financial
        Function Toolkits.  Provides tools and source code for
        creating applications with charts, hypertext help and
        custom setup programs.
    *    Custom Control Development Kit.  Allows the
        developer using Visual Basic for MS-DOS to build new
        custom controls.  Contains complete documentation
        and sample code for creating custom controls in C,
        Assembly or Visual Basic itself.
    *    Source Code Profiler.  Assists in performance tuning
        by displaying program statistics such as length of time
        to execute procedures and identifying the number of
        times each procedure was called.

Extensibility Offers Programmers Wide Variety of Choices
    Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows created a large third
party market for add-on tools.  The unique extensibility mechanism
in the Visual Basic programming system enables third-party
developers to extend the Toolbox with additional pre-built
components called custom controls.  Microsoft Visual Basic for
MS-DOS offers similar extensibility through custom controls,
database add-ons, utilities and libraries.  In addition, more than a
dozen third party books have been announced supporting Visual
Basic for MS-DOS.  A complete 48-page catalog of third party
add-ons is included.

System Requirements, Pricing and Availability
    The Standard Edition of Microsoft Visual Basic for MS-
DOS requires a PC/XT or above with 640K memory and takes
advantage of EMS/XMS memory if present.  The suggested retail
price is $199.  Microsoft QuickBasic, Basic PDS, Visual Basic for
Windows and Borland* language users may acquire it at a special
price of $99.  Students and educators can get the single-user
packages for $49.95 and 10 packs for $199.
    The Professional Edition requires a PC/XT or above with
640K memory, with an additional 1MB of EMS/XMS memory
recommended.  The suggested retail price is $495.  Microsoft
QuickBasic, Basic PDS, Visual Basic for Windows and Borland
language users may purchase at a special price of $199.
    Microsoft Visual Basic for MS-DOS, Standard and
Professional Editions are scheduled to be available in early
September.  In addition, French and German versions will be
available simultaneously, with Italian and Japanese versions
available later this year.
    Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ MSFT) is the worldwide
leader in software for personal computers.  The company offers a
wide range of product and services for business and personal use,
each designed with the mission of making it easier and more
enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal
computing every day.

            #########
Microsoft and MS-DOS are registered trademarks and Microsoft Quick
Basic, QBasic, Visual Basic and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation.
Borland is a registered trademark of Borland International, Inc.

All prices are U.S. suggested retail prices.  Reseller prices may vary.


[1.4] How do I program the mouse in QuickBASIC?

  Mouse support comes standard with the Microsoft BASIC PDS (see [4]).
For $25, Microsoft sells a Microsoft Mouse developer's kit than
includes documentation and a library for QuickBASIC to write
mouse-aware programs.  Contact Microsoft for details.  I don't know
about other companies' mouses, but chances are if you contact the
vendor's tech support line, they will be able to tell you.

From: [e-mail] (Tom Boutell)
>
>- Those wishing to program the mouse without giving Microsoft $$$ will
>probably want to check out the exhaustive list of DOS interrupt
>routines available on the net (from simtel among other places), which
>includes information on accessing the mouse interrupts, which really
>aren't that complicated. (Since QuickBASIC has interrupt call functions
>this interface is adequate.)

[1.5] What are the differences between PDS 7.1, VB/DOS, and VB/DOS Pro?

(Note: the following is my summary of extracts from several of Steve
Podradchik's postings in this group.  I would appreciate any
corrections if I have made mistakes.  Please consider this portion to
be in 'first draft' state, and don't trust it blindly...)

VB/DOS is mostly a superset of PDS 7.1, with everything PDS has, plus:
 - VB/DOS is the first Microsoft compiler with 386 code generation.
 - OPTION EXPLICIT tells VB/DOS not to allow undeclared variables, so
every variable must be DIMed before use.  You can mix OPTION EXPLICIT
and old style modules in the same program.
 - VB/DOS uses far strings only, which helps alleviate the 64Kb DGROUP
limitation on string size.  String literals in the code are also
stored in far space.  According to Microsoft's testing, there is
little or no performance penalty.
 - The forms, events, controls, etc. from VB/Win are available in
VB/DOS.  You can write programs that mix VB/Win style event code an
QB/PDS style procedural code.

VB/DOS Pro has the following advantages over VB/DOS standard:
 - Code optimization for 286 and 386/486 processors, and much faster
floating point emulation code for machines without a coprocessor.  In
general, VB/DOS compiled executables are faster than those produced by
the standard version.
 - VB/DOS Pro uses Microsoft's MOVE dynamic overlay system, the same
as that used in MS C/C++ 7.0.  MOVE can keep multiple overlay segments
in memory simultaneously, for better capacity.
 - The Integrated ISAM database engine is in PDS and VB/DOS Pro, but
not in VB/DOS standard.  VB/DOS Pro also comes with a variety of other
toolkits, libraries, and utilities:
   CodeView debugger, and MS Source Code Profiler
   Charting toolkit based on MS Excel
   Font toolkit with Bitstream fonts
   Help toolkit and Setup toolkit
   Matrix math
   more?

Finally, VB/DOS is lacking one thing PDS had: OS/2 support.

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PC General Questions

[2.1] Whatever happened to Turbo BASIC?

From: [e-mail] (Daniel Corbier)
>
>Borland discontinued their Turbo Basic, and returned the copyright
>back to the author, who in turn added all the features BASIC
>programmers always wanted, then named it PowerBASIC.  The first
>thing you'll notice when switching from Turbo Basic is the
>dramatic increase in spead (they use a special procedural method
>for floating point).
>
>Among many other things, here are features that I find usefull:
>
>- COM 1-4 support w/ baud rates up to 115200
>- ASCII function, similar to ASC, but accepts null strings
>- Errorlevels can be returned to DOS with: END number
>- No annoying "Redo from start error" for the INPUT command
>- DIR$(mask$,[attribute]) to retrieve filenames
>- CHR$ accepts multiple values.  Like CHR$(125,132,15,29)
>- PEEK$/POKE$ up to 32K of data.  Works instantly, extremely useful
>- Built in ARRAY operations:  sort, scan, insert, delete w/
>  optional tagging & collating
>- Additional string commands like: VERIFY, USING$, TALLY,
>  RPELACE, REPEAT$, REMOVE$, EXTRACT$, MAX$, MIN$, HEX$, OCT$, ...
>- Library striping for making .EXE as small as possible
>- INSTR is extended to allow search of sets of characters
>- Additional math functions like:  LOG2, LOG10, MIN/MAX, EXP2, ...
>- INCR & DECR for speedy incrementation.  INCR x, instead of x=x+1
>- You can specify a complete 20-bit address for BLOAD/BSAVE
>- Support for 64-bit integers and binary coded decimals
>- A very good debugger is built-in to the IDE (something TB didn't have)
>- Unlimited string space
>- Link .OBJ files
>- You can compile for 286/80x87 and many other compiler options

From: [e-mail] (Leonard Erickson)
>
>Oh yeah, Spectra *still* offers cheap upgrades for Turbo Basic owners!
>I'm about to do it myself, as I already have TB, and PB is supposed
>to be QuickBasic compatible.

[2.2] How can I write TSRs in BASIC?

PowerBASIC allegedly has support for TSRs built-in, so check that out.
I've never used PowerBASIC so I don't know how it works.  If you want
to stick to QuickBASIC, there are third party libraries that will let
you write TSRs:
  PDQ from Crescent Software, and Stay-Res Plus from MicroHelp.

From: [e-mail] (George L)
>Not to undermine PowerBasic, but I noticed that Programmers Paradise sells
>a program called Stay-Res Plus from MicroHelp Inc. that claims to work on:
>
>"Any stanalone BASIC programs that doesn't require the /D, /V, or /W
>compiler sitches can be made memory resident in as little as 4K of DOS memory.
>The balance is swapped to a disk file or EMS memory." and so on ...
>
>Don't know anything about it, just passing information along.

From: [e-mail] (Paul Leonard)
Subject: TSRs in QB45
>
>This question comes up pretty regularly on the Fidonet QUIK_BAS echo - the
>usual reply is that there is no direct support for such an application, but
>there are a few add-on libraries from third-party vendors that add these
>functions.  The only one i can remember is PDQ from Crescent Software.
>
>From a message dated Jan. '92:
>
>======
>[stuff deleted]
>
>3) Call Crescent software and order PDQ, which is a replacement
>library for QuickBASIC's runtime library... it makes smaller EXE's, adds
>some new keywords that work better/faster than QB's, and also adds TSR
>capability to your programming. It costs $149 from Crescent, or $115
>from Programmer's paradise
>
>CRESCENT:[phone]
>PROGRAMMER'S PARADISE: [phone]
>
>When ordering from somebody besides CRESCENT, make sure you verify which
>version is being shipped.  Current PDQ version is 3.0
>
>[stuff deleted]
>======
>
>I've never seen or used this library, so i can't recommend it, but its name
>comes up so often in reply to TSR questions that it must doing what it
>advertises.  :)

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Other Platforms

[3.1] What is available for the Macintosh?

The most well known is Microsoft QuickBASIC for the Mac, which is very
different from the PC product, and makes no claims of compatibility.
For example, identical keywords may have completely different
meanings.  In addition to QB for the Mac, you might also look into
ZBASIC / Future BASIC from ZEDCOR.  Ariel Publishing puts out a Mac
oriented periodical called Inside BASIC.  For more information go to
the "Addresses & Phone Numbers" section below.

[3.2] TrueBASIC

True BASIC is platform independent with Mac, PC, Amiga, Atari
(and maybe more) versions. They now sell a $15 student version
with a limitation on program size (plenty for classroom use).
See appendix A for contact information.

[3.3] Is there BASIC on Unix platforms?

There is a QuickBASIC compiler for Unix by a company called Basmark.
They should send you their blurb if you phone or fax them:
 Tel : [phone]    Fax : [phone]

According to Alex Matulich <[e-mail]>, HP offers a BASIC for
for HP-UX, its version of Unix.  I work on HP-UX machines and have
never heard of this, so apparently we don't have it here.  Can anyone
confirm the existence of this BASIC and give any details?

In addition, Business Basic eXtended (bbx) will run on Unix.
See below.

[3.4] Business BASIC

Business BASIC is a variant of BASIC that actually preceeds the
microcomputer BASICs, and hasn't borrowed much from then.  This allows
software to be written in a manner that is compatible across hardware
platforms and operating systems.  Versions of Business Basic run on a
variety of Unix, DOS, VMS, and perhaps other platforms.  (Somebody
want to supply me with a complete list?)

Business Basic is put out by Basis International, which is on the net.
Russ Kepler has identified himself as VP of Engineering, and given us
his email address: <[e-mail]>  He also included a phone
number, but I'm not sure if it's his home number, so I'm not including
it (yet).  The entire company, including technical support, can be
reached by email.

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[A] Addresses and Phone Numbers:

From: [e-mail] (Kent E Morrison)
>
>True BASIC, Inc.
>12 Commerce Avenue
>West Lebanon, NH 03784 USA
>
>1-800-TR-BASIC  Sales and orders
>1-603-298-7015  Fax
>1-603-298-8517  Customer support

From: Daryl Clarke <[e-mail]>
>
>Crescent Software
>11 Bailey Avenue
>Ridgefield, CT  06877
>
>(800) 35 BASIC orders
>[phone] tech

From: [e-mail] (Paul Leonard)
>
>CRESCENT:[phone]
>
>              CRESCENT SOFTWARE
>              32 SEVENTY ACRES
>              WEST REDDING CT 06896

From: [e-mail] (Geoffrey Rowell)
>
>CRESCENT SOFTWARE, INC.
>11 Bailey Avenue
>Ridgefield, CT 06877
>Phone: [phone]
>Orders Only: 800-35-BASIC
>FAX: [phone]
>Support BBS: [phone]
>Compuserve: 72657,3070
>
>MICROHELP, INC.
>4636 Huntridge Drive
>Roswell, GA 30075
>Phone & Orders: 800-922-3383
>(In Georgia: [phone])
>FAX: [phone]

From: [e-mail] (Daniel Corbier)
>
>PowerBASIC BBS:  813-625-1721
>Tech Support:    813-625-1172
>CIS:  71530,2640 (Internet [e-mail]   talk to Lloyd Smith)
>
>You can ask them to send you the free demo PBLITE.  You can get your
>copy from Dustin Discount:  1-800-274-6611 or 1-818-710-9174
>
>Be sure to tell them that you heard about it on Internet.

From: [e-mail] (Bruce Edwards)
>
>ZEDCOR
>ZBasic / FutureBasic
>602-795-3996 (tech support)
>
>Staz Software PG:PRO
>443 Yacht Club Drive / Suite 1008
>Bay St. Louis, MS 39520
>601-255-7805
>
>McZ Ariel Publishing
>P.O. Box 398
>Pateros, WA 98846
>[phone]
>Tamara Lambert
>Subscription Services

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[B] Periodicals

From: [e-mail] (Hazel Marie Davey)
>
>In the UK there is a publication called "BASIC MAGAZINE".
>
>It is available by mail-order subscription only and costs 35 pounds
>a year or 50 pounds for two years.
>
>Basic Magazine,
>FREEPOST,
>PO Box 388,
>Tring,
>Herts.,
>HP23 4EB
>ENGLAND
>
>Tel. [phone]
>
>Issue 1 came out in April this year and it is published bi-monthly.

From: [e-mail] (Keith Pleas)
>
>    BasicPro
>    Fawcette Technical Publications
>    299 California Avenue, Suite 120
>    Palo Alto, CA  94306-1912
>    [phone]
>    [phone]
>    MCI: JFawcette
>    CompuServe: 73030,3334
>This is *the* magazine for Microsoft Basics.  The contributing editors
>include Ethan Winer (Crescent) and Mark Novisoff (MicroHelp).
>
>    Windows Tech Journal
>    Oakley Publishing Co.
>    150 N. Fourth St.
>    Springfield, OR  97477
>    [phone]
>    [phone]
>    CompuServe: 76701,32
>This is a new (this year) magazine that focuses on Windows programming
>(obviously), but specializes on the higher level stuff (particularly VB).
>I'm a little biased (I've had two articles this year: DDE, which included
>a VB string prototyping applet, and Excel), but you should probably
>check it out.  Also, the big VB contest that MS is sponsoring for
>Fall Comdex is being handled (and judged) by WTJ.

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[C] Notes from the FAQ author

This one took me a lot longer to compile than I had expected, with all
the new questions and answers about VB/DOS.  I'm still somewhat
confused myself.  The Microsoft section [1.x] needs a total rewrite
and reorganization, but I'm going to wait until things settle down.
In the meantime, I'm doubling the Expires: time on my FAQ postings to
two months to compensate for the fact that I always seem to be a few
days late in posting.  I still intend to post at the beginning of each
month, and Supersedes: headers will take care of the old FAQ.

On another note, I asked Steve Podradchik if he was representing
Microsoft officially, and this is the email I got in response.

>From: [e-mail]
>To: [e-mail]
>Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 11:15:46 PDT
>
>I was speaking in an official capacity for VB/DOS.  I do not represent
>Microsoft as a whole but I speak to the press and other groups frequently
>in regard to VB/DOS.
>
>Thanks, Steve Podradchik, Product Manager, Microsoft VB for MS-DOS

  --  Cos (Ofer Inbar)  --  [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Alan Hamilton)
Subject: Bisexual Resource List (monthly posting)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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Summary: Resources for and about bisexual people.
Sender: [e-mail] (USENET News System)
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Archive-name: bisexual-resources

            Bisexual Resource List

| This compilation of resources useful to Bisexuals is posted monthly
| to newsgroups soc.bi, soc.motss, and news.answers, and to mailing
lists biact-l, bisexu-l, and bifem-l.

Additions and changes since the last-published version are marked with
a bar (|) in the left column.  Deletions (which will not appear in the
next version) are marked with a less-than (<) in the left column.

Please send dates of Pride Day (or nearest approximation) for all
locations you know about.

If you or anyone you know makes a media appearance of any sort
| (newspaper, magagazine, radio, television, etc.) as a
bisexual-identified person, please be sure to send a copy to the
| Bisexual Archives, c/o the East Coast Bisexual Network, Inc. (ECBN).

Please help eradicate US-centrism in this resource list.  Please point
out listings which leave out the country, or otherwise assume that the
world revolves around the US.  For a description of some geographic
entities which are sometimes confused, send mail to [e-mail].

In price listings, "waged" means that you have a job; "unwaged" or
"concessions" means that you're unemployed, at school or university,
retired, etc.

| All posts to news.answers are archived, and it is possible to retrieve
| the last posted copy via anonymous FTP from pit-manager.mit.edu in
| /pub/usenet/news.answers/bisexual-resources.  Those without FTP access
| may send e-mail to [e-mail] with "send
| usenet/news.answers/finding-sources" in the body to find out how to
| get files from pit-manager by e-mail.

| Please send additions and corrections and suggestions to Alan Hamilton
| at [e-mail] or c/o ECBN, 95 Berkeley Street #613, Boston,
| Massachusetts 02116, USA, including requests to have your email
| address listed in the BISEXUAL ACTIVISTS EMAIL ADDRESSES section.  You
| may order a hard copy from for US$5.00 from ECBN.



CALENDAR

  1992 Dec        Time to renew subscriptions to newsletters!
  1993 (need date)    Lesbian, Gay, Bi & Transgender Studies Conference,
            San Francisco, U.S.  Contact Karen Gallaghar,
            194 Douglass Street, San Francisco, California
            94114, USA.  415-626-3017.
  1993 Apr 23        BiNet/USA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA.
  1993 Apr 24        US national bisexual conference, Washington, DC, USA.
  1993 Apr 25        Washington, DC, US: National March on Washington.
  1993 summer        Britain's 11th annual conference.
  1993 Jun 17-25    Gay Games IV
  1993 Dec        Time to renew subscriptions to newsletters!
| 1994 Jun 25        International Bisexual Conference in New York.
  1994 Jun 26        Stonewall 25: International March on the United
            Nations to Affirm the Human Rights of Lesbian and Gay
            People.



OTHER RESOURCE LISTS

Bibliography of books by and/or about bisexual people and issues.
Developed by Lambda Rising Bookstore, Washington, District of
Columbia, USA.  Send US$5 to ECBN, POB 639, Cambridge, Massachusetts
02140, USA.

_International Directory of Bisexual Groups_, April 1992 edition
published by the East Coast Bisexual Network.  Send US$5 to ECBN, POB
639, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140, USA.

The Bisexual Archives, available for use by appointment with ECBN,
POB 639, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140, USA.

List of organizations who either have a "sexual orientation" clause
as part of policy or are subject to laws relating to "sexual orientation".
Requests, corrections and contributions to [e-mail].

Annotated list of Bisexuality in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Other
Fiction.  Requests, corrections and contributions to [e-mail]
(Dave Berry).

List of shows which included regular, semi-regular or recurring/
occasional gay, lesbian or bisexual characters.  Requests, corrections
and contributions to [e-mail] .

List of books with bisexual themes and/or characters.  Requests,
corrections and contributions to [e-mail] .

Bisexuality in Literature: A Preliminary Checklist.  Requests,
additions, and corrections to M. S. Montgomery, PO Box 1189,
Princeton, New Jersey 08542, US, or [e-mail].



        CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS to the
      _International Directory of Bisexual Groups_
              April 1992 edition

| Australia
| Macquarie University, Sidney, Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay Group.
| Phone: Tim Davis 61-2-805-7629 or 61-2-805-7633(fax).

Finland
Bi Group, c/o SETA, PL 55, 00531 Helsinki, Finland.  Phone:
| [phone], [phone](fax).  email: [e-mail]

United States / Arkansas
Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian Activist Delegation, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
(contact information needed - reference seen in the Blade by Michael Beer)

United States / California / Bay Area
Bisexual Politics (BiPOL).  Email: wet![e-mail].

United States / Minnesota
Bi Women and Friends.  Phone: Deb [phone], Kristin [phone].

United States / Minnesota
Bisexual Women's Social Group.  Potluck format.  Joint events with men
by invitation only.  Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
| contact information needed.

United States / Minnesota
Brian Coyle, Minneapolis D.F.L. Caucus for G/L/Bi/Tg People, their
Families and Friends.  Phone: Marie Hanson [phone] or Wally Swan
[phone].

United States / Minnesota
| The previous issue of this list stated that all Minnesota numbers
| should be Area Code 507 instead of Area Code 612.  This is not true.
| Look at each entry for the correct Area Code.

United States / Minnesota
Philips G/L/Tg/Ts/Bi Organization.  Phone: Rand [phone] or Tom
[phone].

United States / Minnesota
Quatrefoil Library, 1619 Dayton Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55104,
USA.  Phone: [phone].  Serving L/G/Bi/Tgs.  Books, videos,
tapes, games, periodicals, extensive archives.

United States / Minnesota / Interest Group
Front Runners/Walkers of MSP.  Outdoor walking/running group.  Phone:
Judy [phone] or Greg [phone].

United States / Minnesota / Interest Group
Minnesota Leather Den Women's group.  Phone: Sheila [phone].

United States / Minnesota / Youth
G/L/Bi Youth, ages 15-19 only.  Phone: [phone] or [phone].

United States / Minnesota
Humphrey Institute L/G/Bi Caucus, HHH Institue of Public Affairs,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.  Phone:
[phone].

United States / Minnesota
| St. Cloud State University: Bisexuals United, St. Cloud University,
| St. Cloud, Minnesota 56301, USA.  Phone: not known.

United States / Minnesota
| University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: University Bi Community
| International, Community of Color L/G/Bi, Friends Group, Association
| of L/G&Bi Student Organizations.  c/o Association of L/G/Bi Students,
| 230-A Coffman Union, 300 Washington Avenue, SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota
| 55455, USA.  Phone: [phone].

United States / Minnesota
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: Progressive Student Organization
G/L/Bi Caucus, 235 Coffman Union, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
Phone: [phone].

United States / Missouri
Bi The Way bisexual support group.  Meets Thursday nights at the Bosom
of Ishtar bookstore, 10th & Walnut Sts, Columbia, Missouri 65201, USA.
A related political action group, BAM, meets biweekly mondays next
door at Mixed Company coffee-house.  Phone: [phone].  Email:
[e-mail] .

| United States / New Jersey
| Bisexuals Achieving Solidarity (BIAS), 140 Montgomery St., Apt 1D,
| Highland Park, New Jersey 08904, USA.  Phone: [phone].  Meets
| regularly at or near Rutgers University on Tuesdays.

United States / New Jersey
| Bisexual Network / New Jersey (BNNJ), meeting times have changed.

United States / New York City
Friends for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Concerns, (more info due from Michael Beer)

United States / New York City
NY Area Bisexual Network phone: [phone].

| United States / New York City
| New York City Bisexual Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting phone: [phone].

United States / North Carolina
East Carolina University, Bisexual, Gay, & Lesbian Alliance.
Postal code is 27835.

United States / Texas
Bi-Net [co-ed group], P.O. Box 190712, Dallas, Texas 95219.  Phone
214-504-6612.

United States / Washington, DC
The BiNETWORK of the Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC Area,
P.O. Box 3646, Langley Park, MD 20787.

United States / Washington, DC
Northern Virginia (NOVA) Bi Social.  Phone 703-FLY-TROT.

United States / Washington, DC
BiCentrist Alliance.  _The BiCentrist_ newsletter US$7/year.

US Regional
Democratic Socialists of America Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Commission.
e-mail: [e-mail]

US Regional
Networking Group for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns (NGLGLBC).
A professional association within the American Occupational Therapy
Association.  (Contact info to come, from Michael Beer.)



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