BBS: Inland Empire Archive Date: 09-06-92 (18:09) Number: 219 From: TONY ELLIOTT Refer#: NONE To: FRANCOIS ROY Recvd: NO Subj: Who are my parents? Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
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FUNCTION WPeek% (Segment&, Offset%)
'Peeks a word (two bytes) and returns it as a result of the function
DEF SEG = Segment&
TempL% = PEEK(Offset%)
TempH% = PEEK(Offset% + 1)
DEF SEG
POKE VARPTR(Result%), TempL%
POKE VARPTR(Result%) + 1, TempH%
WPeek% = Result%
END FUNCTION
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Hope this helps!
Tony
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