UniBasic Commands Reference - Rocket Software

ASSIGN
Syntax
ASSIGN expr TO SYSTEM(option)
Description
The UniBasic ASSIGN command redefines some system-level parameters. The
value in option changes to the value you specify with expr.
Parameters
The following table describes each parameter of the syntax.
For parameters 2, 3, and 5, expr must be numeric. For parameter 7, expr must be a
string representing a valid terminal type and must be enclosed in quotation marks.
Example
Parameter Description
2 Page width
3 Page length
5 Page number
7 Terminal type
ASSIGN Parameters
In the following example, the program resets the page width to 40, page length to 30,
and terminal type to vt100:
ASSIGN 40 TO SYSTEM(2)
ASSIGN 30 TO SYSTEM(3)
ASSIGN "vt100" TO SYSTEM(7)
ASIN 1-107