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- ADVC Quick Reference Document
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- E = Equipment, I = Input, M = Misc, S = String, V = Video
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- * = use of nonstandard C features
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- E* commports get number of serial ports installed
- E* displaytype see if display is color or monochrome
- E* drivespace get amount of free space on a given disk drive
- E* getdrive get letter of default disk drive
- E* joystick see if a joystick port is installed
- E* limmfree see how much expanded memory is available
- E* limmtotal see how much expanded memory is installed
- E* printports get number of parallel ports installed
- E* totalmem return amount of normal memory installed
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- I* getkey wait for one of a list of keys to be pressed
- I* mousebuttons see if mouse buttons are pressed
- I* mousecheck see if a mouse is installed, and how many buttons it has
- I* mouseclick see if mouse buttons were clicked
- I* mousecol see what column the mouse cursor is in
- I* mousecursor turn mouse cursor on or off
- I* mouseloc set the mouse cursor location
- I* mouserow see what row the mouse cursor is in
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- M* delay wait for a specified number of seconds
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- S any2dec convert a string of a given base to a number
- S bsqueeze squeeze blanks from a string
- S bunsqueeze unsqueeze a blank-squeezed string
- S dec2any convert a number to a string of a given base
- S extract extract a delimited substring from a string
- S locase convert a string to lowercase
- S multiand AND the elements of a string with a given value
- S multior OR the elements of a string with a given value
- S multixor XOR the elements of a string with a given value
- S reverse reverse the order of the chrs in a string
- S soundex calculate the soundex code for a string
- S strip strip occurrences of a given chr from a string
- S striprange strip a given (inclusive) range of chrs from a string
- S upcase convert a string to uppercase
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- V* bkscroll scroll an area of the screen down (or clear it)
- V* clreol clear from cursor to end of line
- V* scroll scroll an area of the screen up (or clear it)
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