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10 Common Questions
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10 Commonly-Asked Questions About Microsoft BASIC
 
  ◄1...►  How do I add routines to an existing Quick library (QLB)?
  ◄2...►  What do "Bytes Available" and "Bytes Free" mean?
  ◄3...►  What other languages are compatible with the BASIC Compiler?
  ◄4...►  I'm having problems opening a communications port. What is a
          good general OPEN statement that I can test it with?
  ◄5...►  How do I declare a fixed-length string array?
  ◄6...►  I get a "Subscript out of range" error when I'm declaring
          a huge dynamic array even though I have plenty of memory. Why?
  ◄7...►  How do I declare a dynamic array?
  ◄8...►  Why does a CALL to my assembly routines hang at run time when I
          LINK them with programs compiled with /Fs or run them in a Quick
          Library (QLB) from QBX?
  ◄9...►  After recompiling my old programs with the BASIC Compiler, my
          assembly language subprograms hang when called. They still work
          in the QBX environment and when I put them in a .LIB file. Why?
  ◄10..►  Why aren't my variables passed through COMMON after I have
          moved some of my SUB procedures to a second module?