DREADED CTRL-BREAK

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 02-24-93 (11:26)             Number: 312
From: DOUGLAS LUSHER               Refer#: NONE
  To: JAMES VAHN                    Recvd: NO  
Subj: DREADED CTRL-BREAK             Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
JV>Which brings up a question of my own-  if Greg did write such a
JV>beast, how would he hook into Basic?  My impulse would be to put
JV>it into a string and point 09h to it.  But the strings MOVE don't
JV>they?  Garbage collection and all that..

JV>So where is a safe place to poke ML routines?

DIM ASMroutine AS STRING * 10

Make it whatever length you want, James, but I've heard or read that
strings created in this way do not move around in memory.

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