Q-4-U!

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 01-24-93 (19:34)             Number: 356
From: JEFF FREEMAN                 Refer#: 329
  To: JOHN SNEERINGER               Recvd: NO  
Subj: Q-4-U!                         Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
 > Here's a small question..

 > When opening a random file like the following...

 > OPEN "r", 1, "a_file.dat", 64
 > FIELD #1, 25 AS Fields$(1), 10 AS Fields$(2), 4 AS
 > Fields$(3), blah

 > Is there any abbreviation, or something that will
 > allow me to continue
 > a VERY long FIELD line on the next line in QuickBASIC?
 > How about PDS?

Good Gawd! Man, get away from the FIELD non-sense and use a TYPE...END TYPE!

Hasta

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