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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?