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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problems with the Random Open statement in Basic
Message-ID: <66@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 5 May 88 22:24:27 GMT
References: <1973@copper.TEK.COM<
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Penn State University
Lines: 26
Keywords: Random, Open, reclen

In article <1973@copper.TEK.COM> wiltonh@copper.TEK.COM (Wilton Hart) writes:
<There seems to be a bug in Basic which keeps me from running some of the 
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<Example:  10 OPEN "R",1,"file",128
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<This statement works but if you increase reclen to any larger value it fails.
<My manual says that reclen is assumed as 128 if you do not put in a value and
<that it can go from 1 to 32,768. 
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<Does anybody know why this fails?
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Yeah.  You need to specify /s:xxxx on the BASIC command line when you start
it from DOS (I.E. BASICA /s:xxxx or GWBASIC /s:xxxx or whatever)

Microsoft decided to do this to save buffer space... I think, and probably
a lot of people think, that they should have made the default a *bit*
larger... in older versions of MS-BASIC (I.E. the BASIC for my TRS-80
Model I yes Microsoft wrote that) the default is 256 bytes.

    Hope this helped...
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