thanks for the help pete. i tried it out and it worked as advertised. however, it does seem to be alot of programming just to pull up some text. is there an easier way to do it or is there pretty much only one way to pull text from an outside file for use in a program?
ive been racking my brains for the last couple days trying to use your prgram but simplify it a little. also, i dont particulary care for the scrolling text and would rather have a full page of text come up, the ppl read it, press a key, and a new full page of text comes up.
also, is there a limit to the amount of characters allowed for a string variable? i thought it was 256 or somewhere around there but im not 100% sure. i was almost even thinking of assinging several sentences to a string variable and retrieving it from a random access file. do you think this way might be feasible or is your idea a better way to go about it?
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