Hi Joe,

You wrote to Murray Lesser:

JN>ML> PDS 7.x is not completely compatible with QuickBASIC; but none of
JN>  > the> versions of QuickBASIC were completely compatible with each
JN>  > other!

JN>AFAIR, the only "incompatibilities" between QB 4.5 and PDS
7.x is that
JN>PDS adds a number of new commands, and those commands may conflict with
JN>variables of the same name (for example DIR$ is a popular variable name,
JN>yet PDS adds a DIR$ function not found in QB).  Other than that, the
JN>only problems one is likely to run into involve getting string segments
JN>and such (mostly when using far strings, as I recall), but anyone doing
JN>that is not going to have much of a problem making the necessary
JN>changes. :)

I've found some of the incompatibility hoops, in particular the QB4.5
tokenising is different to the tokenising in PDS 7.1, and so the only
way of transferring source between the two is as ASCII files.

George

 * SLMR 2.1a * Desk: A very large wastebasket with drawers.

--- Maximus/2 3.01