I agree Mike - I have always felt a bit defensive telling people I am programming in BASIC here but the ability to test it interpretively (and it stops when there is a problem!) - then compile it puts it at the top of my list! 

HP seemed to treat BASIC 3000 as sort of a quick thrown together language - no built in ability to call SORT (We use of course the SPL routine) and writing some larger VIEW programs can be a challange (limited to 255 byte strings) - solved by BB) but overall this is a quick and easy to develope platform! 

Can't tell you how many hours I've spent trying to track memory leaks in C - or writing 100 statements in COBOL when BASIC could do it much more efficiently - 

Bill
  Milke said: 

  ----- Original My preference is not use image statements at all. I much prefer to use a 
  print string and load it directly with the desired data items.
  This method is much easier to get exactly the desired results.
  a$="    "+b$(1,30)+"    "+d$(1,4)
  print a$

  Basic Forever!

  Mike Hornsby
  Beechglen Development Inc.
  513-922-0509x31




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