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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Need help with BASIC compiler
Message-ID: <686@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-May-86 00:53:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 00:53:58 1986
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Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <5433@alice.uUCp> d@alice.UucP (Daniel Rosenberg) writes:
>Help!
>
>I'm using the IBM Basic Compiler (version 2) on an AT&T PC 6300,
>with 640K of memory.
>
>I'm trying to have a main module, in one source file, CALL with
>variables to be passed to a subprogram in another source file.
>It all compiles and links fine, but:
>
>1) Some of the variables (which are two-dimensional arrays) get
>weird values in them.

This is because both IBM's and Microsoft's first release of their BASIC
compilers had a bug that caused DYNAMIC arrays to give either the address
of the array or one of the pointers (if 2 or more dimensions).  Microsoft
has sent an update diskette to all registered QUICKBasic users, but IBM
has still to get out a version that works right.  I am on the fourth patch
diskette and am still having trouble.

I can't help on the other two questions.
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