MMBasic for Windows - alphas

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thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 4360	Posted: 11:03am 22 Feb 2022         thwill said   I don't suppose you'd consider adding some sort of BINARY or BLOB language structure deliberately for this use-case and then I'll do the same for MMB4L ? On reflection is that going too far "off piste" ? Could we instead have LOAD DATA added to the PicoMite and the command syntax on both platforms enhanced to include optional arguments for the byte in the file to start reading from and the number of bytes to read. EDIT: Meh, still a problem, a .INC file doesn't know where it is located so it can't really make use of LOAD DATA in a general fashion. Really do need to have capacity to embed data in the file itself which probably means DATA statements despite their problems ... sorry for the stream of consciousness. Best wishes, Tom Edited 2022-02-22 21:13 by thwill