POKE
POS
Statement
POKE memory location, data byte
Writes data byte into memory location.
Both memory location and data byte must
be
integers. Memory
location must be
in
the range - 32768 to 65535.
POKE is the complementary statement of PEEK. The argument to
PEEK
is
a memory location from which a byte is to be read.
PEEK and POKE are useful for storing data efficiently, loading
assembly-language subroutines, and passing arguments (or results) to
and from assembly-language subroutines.
For more information, see the Technical Reference Manual.
Example
10
POKE
&H5A00t
&HFF
I POS(number)
Returns the position of the cursor.
Number
is
a dummy argument.
POS returns a number from 1 to
80 indicating the current
cursor-column position
on
the display.
Example
PRINT TAB(40)
POS(0)
2-138
Function
I