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All products sold on Ebay and delivered to Romania by Ebay Delivery now carry an import tax between 25% and 34%, payed directly to Ebay :( God only knows why the tax is not a fixed percentage. It's probably calculated as a percentage from (product cost + transport cost) plus a fixed ammount for acti...

I don't know how it works in UK, but here upgrading from copper wire to fiber optics took 30 minutes - but they required access into the house. They came and installed the fiber optics cable. Then they removed the old copper cable. (so internet off). Installed the new router in my office and configu...

Hey guys, don't rush! It's not for you! :D But I admit that cloning Marcel is a great idea! Tetroid, too! :idea: There is no vet reproduction clinic in Romania that can work with frozen semen. So I hope that ours will be the first one. But as I live in a country that has mostly idiots in the governm...

Thank you DIlwyn! The info is great!

Today we received our Christmas present. Well, not really a present because we paied for it, but that's life
2 containers for storing frozen semen in liquid nitrogen.
God, the're heavy!

Dir output to a file - doesn't work. I mean, I want to check if I have space to write a 1k file. If I don't have space for that than I might don't have enough space for a dir file.
Dir output to a pipe - this might work, except that I have no way of knowing how many bytes per sector there are.

Is there a function/a way to read the free space available on a drive?
Except Turbo Toolkit's DEVICE_SPACE function?
I do not want to load all Turbo Toolkit for the use of a single function.

Thank you Tofro and Jan for the explanations - now it makes sense.
Next time I'll keep in mind not to put comments on same line with an IF

tofro wrote: The interpreter should see the same thing, only without complaining.

As far as I can tell in interpreter the code works correctly and the IF is fully executed, regardless or the REMark

Need HELP ! LOOKING for 3 testers for PICOLE2 !!
Any volunteers?

Please send me a pm with your email - and I'll send the game for testing!!