Q31776: Modified CALL INT86OLD Program

Article: Q31776
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 4.00 4.00b 4.50
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | docerr | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 20-DEC-1989

A correction should be made to Page 88 of the following manuals:

1. "Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.00: BASIC Language Reference"

2. "Microsoft BASIC Compiler Version 6.00 for MS-DOS and OS/2:
   BASIC Language Reference"

In the CALL INT86OLD sample program on Page 88, the following line is
incorrect:

   INARY%(DX) = SADD("FOO.TXT" + CHR$(0))

The line should be changed to the following:

   temp$ = "FOO.TXT" + CHR$(0)
   INARY%(DX) = SADD(temp$)

In QuickBASIC Versions 4.00 and later, and in Microsoft BASIC Compiler
Version 6.00, the SADD function only ACCEPTs a string variable as an
argument, not a string expression.

If you try to run the CALL INT86OLD sample program in the QB.EXE
Version 4.00 editor, the "Expected: variable" error message appears
unless you change the program as shown above.

In QuickBASIC Version 3.00, the SADD function can take a string
expression as its argument. In QuickBASIC Versions 4.00 and greater,
the SADD function only can take a string variable (i.e. a simple
string variable, or a single element of a string array).

The example on Page 88 is a revised version of a program on Page 149
of the QuickBASIC Version 3.00 manual.

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