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1-900 number support

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From: david gebhardt
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:53
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On 08-13-92 at 6:59am, St21519 wrote to All:

>arrow keys.  Normally, this would not be a problem because you would
>expect both keys to behave identically anyway.  If you are a registered
>QuickBasic owner, you can call our programming support line (900)896-9999
>for example code on this process.  Alternatively, you can access the
>entire Microsoft knowledgebase on Compuserve by typing "Go MDKB" at
>any prompt.  Query on "inkey$ trap quickbasic".

S9>What information do we need to be prepared to offer when dialing this number?
S9>And what is the charge for this access? (1-900 number)

I believe I read your previous post on wanting to trap all instances
of the arrow key presses. If you use inkey$ and convert the keypress
to lower case, this reduces the number of checks that have to be done.
However, if you are also checking for characters that should not be
converted to lowercase, you have to have some code to check this out.
If you're only checking for arrow presses, there's no problem.

If you want some sample code, I've got it in one of my software
packages that I wrote. I could pull it out and leave it here for you.

David Gebhardt
ComputerPlus
(416) 727-2167
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From: "david gebhardt" <david.gebhardt@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
Subject: 1-900 number support
Message-ID: <199214.3061.801@dosgate>
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:53:42 EST
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