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Date: 02-12-93 (11:39)             Number: 368
From: RICK PEDLEY                  Refer#: NONE
  To: HUGH MARTIN                   Recvd: NO  
Subj: Help                           Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
 On 02-11-93 Hugh Martin wrote to Mark Butler...

 HM> VIEW PRINT is a code bloater, as you say.  The only way I
 HM> know of in straight QB is to print 1920 chrs with a
 HM> semicolon, then print the last 80 chrs with another
 HM> semicolon.  Have you discovered any other way to do all 25
 HM> lines without scrolling in straight QB without the scroll
 HM> occurring?


Yes, do this:

LOCATE 25, 1: PRINT STRING$(2000, 225);

(gloating ;-) )


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