see my example above. It redirects perfectly. :t
No, your example doesn't redirect perfectly - you know that, of course.
But the whole point of macros like chr$() and cfm$() is that you can see what you want to write in context, not as WriteFile xyz, someobscurepointer. The line
print "Hello World" is much easier to read and understand. This is why "high level languages" were created. BASIC was the first major milestone there, but with the slow old machines, programmers were forced to use BASIC and assembly in parallel. Then, many years later, K&R decided to abandon BASIC and lift assembly to a higher level of abstraction, and to call it "C". The new "HLL" was almost as fast as assembly, but, as we still can see half a century later, it also maintained its closeness to the metal: pointers all over the place, the need to allocate and free explicitly even a simple hello world string, etc. The fact that M$ has to update the OS every month, and Adobe lost her reputation as a serious software company, is attributable to the habit of C/C++ to introduce bugs easily (I am trying to blame the language for the bugs, knowing how sensitive her programmers are
)
In any case, please stop alluding that there is any parental relationship between C and assembly. Our baby was around long before K&R started their clumsy attempt to make assembly "easier".
@José: If you are looking for crt-free code, try MasmBasic ;)
