Tandy 1000 Basic Reference Manual page 162

Chapter 10 I BASIC Keywords
Examples
BASIC assigns 128-byte fields to the variables A$ and B$. If you
now print A$ or B$, you can see the contents of the field. Of
course, this value would be meaningless unless you previously
have used GET to read a 256-byte record from disk.
F I E L D 3, 1 2 8 A S
A $ , 1 2 8 A S BS
F I E L D
3,
16 A S N M $ ,
2 5 A S
A D S ,
1 0 A S C Y $ ,
2 A S
S T $ ,
7 A S Z P $
BASIC assigns the first 16 bytes of Buffer 3 to field
NM$;
the
next 25 bytes to AD$; the next 10 to CY$; the next 2 to ST$;
and the next 7 to ZP$.
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