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Subject: BASIC 2.0 (reposting) - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 19-Nov-83 01:32:17 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 19 01:32:17 1983
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isrnix!akp    Nov 18 22:41:00 1983

I am reposting this, in the hopes of getting some response. I got NONE the
first time. Has anybody else even NOTICED this stuff?

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***** isrnix:net.micro.pc / akp /  6:49 pm  Oct 30, 1983

I flipped through the IBM BASIC (Microsoft Basic) release 2.0 manual, and came
across the following "reserved words" which are not mentioned anywhere but
in the list of reserved words:
	ENVIRON and ENVIRON$
	ERDEV and ERDEV$
	INTER$, IOCTL, IOCTL$
	KEY$
	SHELL ***

(these are not even in the Index...)
I tried SHELL, and ZAP! I had forked a shell!  I could execute commands
or whatever.  I typed EXIT because that gets out of a DOS subshell, and
it returned to BASIC!  Problem: my program vanished.  No real useful,
except to save the time it takes to load BASIC from disk. Does anybody
know what all this is about?  I couldn't PRINT or assign ENVIRON or ENVIRON$
without a SYNTAX ERROR, and I really haven't tried the rest.
		Any help out there?

				-- Allan Pratt
			...decvax!pur-ee!iuvax!isrnix!akp
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