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Long Filenames
Thanks, Karl! Actually, what worked for me was the first 6 characters of the name, then "~1", then the "." and extension:<br><br>"myfile~1.txt"<br><br>but using that works great.<br><br>MikeN -
Long Filenames
I am using QBasic 1.1 (pretty old, I think!)<br><br>Is there a way to use long filenames? I have tried using variables and double quotes, but I keep getting errors. I'd like to be able to do something like:<br><br>f$="myfilenamehere.txt"<br>open f$ for input as #1<br><br>Thanks! -
null string$
(Programmer) Apr 8, 2000<br>hey! that will put pan1 in a never-ending loop. Not fair, kreep!<br><br>Only until mail.nam$ has a non-null value . . . ??
