A file

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 02-13-93 (12:55)             Number: 368
From: RICK PEDLEY                  Refer#: NONE
  To: JEFFERY FOY                   Recvd: NO  
Subj: A file                         Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
 On 02-11-93 Jeffery Foy wrote to Derek Lyons...

 JF> Btw, to keep on topic... Here's a challenge... Without using MID$,
 JF> LEFT$, RIGHT$, or INSTR, reverse the characters in a 10-byte string
 JF> such
 JF> that:  "0123456789" becomes "9876543210".  I thought it'd be easy but
 JF> find that it isn't... :)

CLS
PRINT "0123456789"
FOR x = 10 TO 1 STEP -1
   A$ = A$ + CHR$(SCREEN(1, x))
NEXT x


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