From: pb@excelsior.xs4all.nl.REMOVE-THIS (Marc van den Dikkenberg)
Subject: Re: Dim absolute:
 
On Sun, 08 Mar 1998 23:22:33 -0500, Krogg 
wrote:
 
>overlays the video buffer.Thats cool, but
>what if i *just* want to store lots of data?I know people must use
>this a lot,but i dont know how ya could know what segments are "safe" to
>use.
 
Virtually none; the dim absolute is only usable in situations where you
want to do stuff to a certain memory segment/location.
 
A shortcut for peek/poke, so to speak.
 
If you just want to store amounts of data somewhere in memory, dim absolute
is NOT the way to go. Especially in the multitasking environments that are
used these days, it's almost impossible to find a 'save' segment.
And furthermore - what would be the gain, when you can let PB take care of
all of this by itself by simply using dim _without_ absolute?
--
Marc van den Dikkenberg
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