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- From: ardtlong@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Dale T. Long)
- Newsgroups: comp.programming
- Subject: Help needed with Qbasic
- Message-ID: <ardtlong.715237642@adam.adelaide.edu.au>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 05:07:22 GMT
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- I am using Qbasic, the one that comes with Microsoft DOS 5.00 for the
- IBM PC. I have a problem in that the space allocated for strings is only
- 8000 bytes. In the old GWbasic I would have done a CLEAR xxx to free up xxx
- amount of bytes. However Qbasic only has the ability to clear the stack using
- CLEAR ,,xxx . Paramaters before the first two commas don't do a thing. Is there
- a way to allocate more string space? I am using a two dimensional dynamic
- string array. Help indicates that individual strings can be up to 32767 bytes
- long but I can't even have a single string longer than the 8000 byte limit.
- Help also says that a string array can be up to 64K in size. Is there any way
- to over come this problem? Is the Qbasic (interpreter) just a sales pitch
- that makes people need to buy the full Quick Basic (compiler) out of neccesity?
- Has anyone else had this problem? How do I increase the amount of string space
- from 8000 bytes?
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- Dale Long.
- ardtlong@adam.adelaide.edu.au
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