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a good question.
most of the time of profesionals in BASIC goes up
in mouse routines. maybe you can use CALL ABSOLUTE
or in GW or Darthmouth BASIC CALL INTERUPT.
how its working i don't know  ;D, but is maked for mouse routines.

or use the windows clipboard  ;D

hmz....good question...
can't you make a DLL in C++ and set in the SHELL
something like this:
SHELL "yourcppprog.dll?this=that"
like the perl and the PHP way....

thanx 4 correcting

maybe the peek function:

result$ = PEEK(NUM%)

where num% is the number of te hardware or (WIN-ME or higher) the internet port. I don't have the port-numbers in my head but PEEK is the way to call them.

can somebody plz tell me how F1-12 , Ctrl , Alt and shift are identified by inkey$? (i won't be rude like that anymore)
you can do that with the KEY ON and the ON KEY statement. With this piece of code your program will stop when the ESC key is hitted: (if after the stop label the end statement in ...

you can do that with te chr$ function
it returns te ASCII char with that number.
when you type this the var. quot$ contains "
qout$ = chr$(32)

the difficult way to copy files within SHELL:

LET file1$ = "in.txt"
LET file2$ = "out.txt
OPEN file1$ for input as #1
OPEN file2$ for output as #1
DO UNTIL EOF(1)
LINE INPUT #1, dummy$
PRINT #2, dummy$
LOOP
CLOSE #1: CLOSE #2

the text in "in.txt" is now dito to "out.txt"
remember that in 1 program ...