Answering msg from Bek Oberin to Rowan Crowe,
on Thursday July 27 1995 at 19:50

 BO> My delightful brother is wanting to know how to deal with single
 BO> characters in basic - the compiler seems to want strings (variable$)
 BO> or numbers (variable% i think) but won't do things with single
 BO> characters. At least I think that was what he was trying to say...

There's no way to deal with single characters unless you keep them as an
integer. What exactly is he trying to do?

You can convert between the two using ASC() and CHR$()

 BO> Maybe I should just give him moonrock!

Same problem though. :-)

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