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 Memory Management Commands
 
 ■ The following keywords are used in Visual Basic to return, set, and
   manipulate memory:
 
   ◄BLOAD►            Loads file created by BSAVE into memory
   ◄BSAVE►            Copies contents of memory area to a file
   ◄CLEAR►            Reinitializes variables, closes files, sets stack size
   ◄DEF SEG►          Sets current segment address
   ◄FRE►              Returns memory and stack information
   ◄PEEK►             Returns byte value stored at memory location
   ◄POKE►             Writes byte value to memory location
   ◄SADD►             Returns address (offset only) of string data
   ◄SETMEM►           Sets far heap memory size and returns size of far heap
   ◄SSEG►             Returns address (segment only) of a string variable
   ◄SSEGADD►          Returns address (both segment and offset) of a string
   ◄STACK Function►   Returns maximum stack size that can be allocated
   ◄STACK Statement►  Resets size of the stack
   ◄VARPTR►           Returns offset address
   ◄VARSEG►           Returns segment address
   ◄VARPTR$►          Returns a string representation of a variable's address
 
 See: ◄Keywords by Task►