Important Notice

The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software, purely for historical purposes. If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

■ The highlighted statement is valid only within a program
  and cannot be used in the Immediate window.
 
■ As a rule, the following statements and metacommands cannot
  be used in the Immediate window:
 
  • COMMON, CONST, DATA, DECLARE, DIM, OPTION, SHARED, STATIC,
    and TYPE nonexecutable statements
 
  • $INCLUDE, $DYNAMIC, and $STATIC metacommands
 
  • DEF FN...END DEF, ELSE IF, END IF, END TYPE,
    FUNCTION...END FUNCTION, REDIM, and SUB...END SUB
    statements
 
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