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| From | News <chrisjohnson@spamcop.net> |
| Subject | Re: Very rusty programmer here |
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| Date | Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:52:21 +0100 |
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In article <57feeb479bbrian.jordan9@btinternet.com>, Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> wrote: > I /think I know/ that it is possible to read a system variable and > to use the result within a BASIC program. Yes. You need something on the lines of: DIM block% 256 SYS"OS_ReadVarVal", "MyApp$Dir", block%, 256, 0, 3 TO ,,len% block%?len% = 13 :REM Basic terminator path$ = $(block%) -- Chris Johnson
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Very rusty programmer here Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> - 2019-10-06 23:31 +0100 Re: Very rusty programmer here Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-10-07 03:05 +0000 Re: Very rusty programmer here News <chrisjohnson@spamcop.net> - 2019-10-07 10:52 +0100
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