From: Krogg 
Subject: Re: Dim absolute:
 
Marc van den Dikkenberg wrote:
>
> 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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> http://www.xs4all.nl/~excel/pb.html
ok,thanks.I thought there was an easy way.I thought windows would come
back to haunt me though.I guess i will see how it all works when pb3.5 fnaly
shows up in the mail.
                    Thanks,
 
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