From: d83@ath.forthnet.gr (Don Schullian)
Subject: Re: Dim absolute:
 
On Sun, 08 Mar 1998 23:22:33 -0500, Krogg 
wrote:
 
>With respect to the "dim absolute" instruction,how does one
>choose a "safe" segment to use for the "AT" part?
>For example,If i say "dim absolute scrn(319,199) as byte at &ha000" then i
>will get an absolute array that 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.
>
>                  Thanks,
 
You're thinking too hard...
 
  If you just need some memory area and you don't care where it is except 
hat
it doesn't utilize memory already in use then just DIM an array. You don't
want to use ABSOLUTE.
 
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