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problem with OUT OF MEMORY
Well, you never posted, so I guess your problem was solved. Glad for you! Mac -
Do COMMON SHARED variables take up stack space?
I see you have not responded yet. Maybe you want a simpler answer. COMMON SHARED variables take up space before every other SUB or FUNCTION. If you do COMMON SHARED x(1000) as string or just DIM SHARED x(1000) as string then the amount of storage needed to support that array will be... -
problem with OUT OF MEMORY
I found an ancient program, Monopoly, which was 101,060 characters long. I added a lot of functionality, such as a "boss-is-coming" feature yet nevertheless reduced it to 67,180 chars. See history at http://www.network54.com/Forum/190883/message/1156376791/Monopoly The point: you probably... -
run two loops at once
The short answer is "No". There is no QBasic command such as "GC" (GOTO and Continue). If there were, you could code PRINT "Start two processes" CG ReadFile 'This will goto ReadFile but also immediately continue OPEN "OutFile.dat" for output as #2 do line input "Enter message to be saved: "... -
Open Read Write Issues
The Append assumes you always want to add (only) never update or delete anything. If you want the latter, you should open your file as input and open another file for output. When finished. close and then kill the original and rename the work file.
