not call it and might confuse the compiler It would not effect the compiler in the least if it was in the middle of the code and not called, the compiler does not care after all as long as the syntax is correct, which it is. However what I think you mean is that it would have unpredictable results ...

Well this refers to how arguements are passed to functions. Mostly I was wondering why byref was maintained when "as <something> PTR" achieves the same effect. It could possibley be for simplicities sake, but I think it would be more confusing that there are in effect to ways to pass an ar...

Dir "*",16 will return not only directories, but also any files without any attributes set on windows.

Also I was thinking perhaps there should be a forum section for bug reporting.

Hey thanks for the reply, I was sort of hoping to do it without the redirection operator, but I guess whatever works.

Is there anyway to redirect output from the console to a file, IE in SDL for C everything is printed to STDOUT.txt / STDERR.txt How would I do the same in FreeB.

Thanks.

Ok so how do I change the current drive, also then, the fbwiki is somewhat misleading in its example since that is where I first saw this used as supposed way to change drives.

Thats my code, and this is its output.

E:\FreeBasic\FreeBASIC

Am I missing something, or is FB just ignoring me?

Running FB 0.14 on windows98.

Actually I think its better that the compiler complains, the compiler defaults non explicit types to int, thats why the 0 is interpreted as an int, if you want something else, be explicit. C/C++ will generally give you the same warnings.