[Coco] Strings in DECB

[tim lindner]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Theodore (Alex) Evans
<alxevans at concentric.net> wrote:
> I was talking with a friend.  We had a disagreement about the maximum length of strings under DECB. He claimed it was 128 and I
> believe d it was 255. So I did some testing. The results were puzzling. I created a string and began extending it. Any attempt to extend a
> string of 100 characters or more (even with an empty string "") results in an OS error as does any attempt to extend a string past 100
> characters, but I can define and use a string up to 255 characters in length.

Color BASIC starts with 200 bytes of string space available. Use the
CLEAR command to reserve more space.


-- 
--
tim lindner