i'm glad you're trying to keep the "fun" in function coding

"PS: For those few argumentative people here, I know that QB already has Octal so what is the big deal? Keep going in this direction and we won't have to do any function coding."

but i've heard that one before. maybe it's better we have to all write our own input and binary conversion routines, but i was told the same thing about all kinds of normal qbasic functions, back when i asked why i couldn't use them in a previous effort to clone qb.

it goes against galleon's philosophy about not needing to modify existing programs, and as i said, he only needs to change "8" to "2" to do binary, and since he already implemented hex$, "16" to "8" for octal.

it's not a big deal. but it wasn't a big deal when qbguy mentioned it, either, so right question, wrong person.