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        I am using Qbasic, the one that comes with Microsoft DOS 5.00 for the
IBM PC. I have a problem in that the space allocated for strings is only
8000 bytes. In the old GWbasic I would have done a CLEAR xxx to free up xxx
amount of bytes. However Qbasic only has the ability to clear the stack using
CLEAR ,,xxx . Paramaters before the first two commas don't do a thing. Is there
a way to allocate more string space? I am using a two dimensional dynamic
string array. Help indicates that individual strings can be up to 32767 bytes
long but I can't even have a single string longer than the 8000 byte limit.
Help also says that a string array can be up to 64K in size. Is there any way
to over come this problem? Is the Qbasic (interpreter) just a sales pitch
that makes people need to buy the full Quick Basic (compiler) out of neccesity?
Has anyone else had this problem? How do I increase the amount of string space
from 8000 bytes?

Dale Long.
ardtlong@adam.adelaide.edu.au