> >> Do all programs have a word length counter before the device name or > >> do some have a byte length one? And any programs known to use a device > >> name delimited by LF or whatever rather than the internal format with > >> length word/byte? > > > > > > Good question - normally a word length. What about inside a C program > > (remembering that C expects strings to end with a 0 byte and not have a > > word length..... ?? > > C does not use a length, in C the string is null terminated (so a null > byte after the string, no easy way to figure out what the beginning of > the string is. > What about tokenized basic, or compiled basic? In SBasic (in some places > at least), string length is indicated with a byte. Thanks, Joachim, I shall gather various type sof programs to throw at this and find out by trial and error how it works.
Do you think the program should have a batch conversion mode as well, or do you think it's better doing just one program conversion at a time? Certainly easier to write to handle one named program at a time. Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
