Thus it was written in the epistle of Lars Appel,
> While on the subject of Basic/3000... I don't have an
> electronic version of the Basic Interpreter Manual at
> hand... Does anybody happen to know if there is a 32
> bit integer type? INTEGER seems to be 16 bit only (not
> quite surprising for such an ooold & classic product).

If there is, it's news to me.  To work with 32-bit values, we use long reals
and have a couple of miniscule (happy to send you the code if you want) SPL
routine which call DFIX and DFLOAT to convert between long reals and doubles
(as they are stored in the database).

HTH,
Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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