A86: Re: ports tutorial

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Subject: A86: Re: ports tutorial
From: "Dux Gregis" <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 02:38:46 -0500
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>
>Thanks, Dux.  Great ports tutorial;  I actually learned something
>today!  Many teachers have tried and failed at that... :)

heh, thanks :-)

>
>I was looking through the VAT section... If the variable length is not
>in the VAT entry, then is it the first couple bytes at the variable's
>address?  And do variables build upwards or downwards in memory?

Except for variables of a predetermined length (ie, real, complex, pic), the
first two bytes are the length.  All variables build up in memory, unlike
the VAT.

>
>thanks,
>Cassady Roop

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