Tandy 1000 Basic Reference Manual page 324

Chapter 10
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BASIC Keywords
STRIG OFF
STRIGO
OFF
turns off joystick trapping with the ON
STRIGO
GOSUB
statement.
When you load
BASIC, STRIGO OFF
is the default, because joy-
stick trapping slows program execution. Therefore, if you execute
a STRIGO ON statement to enable joystick button trapping, we
recommend that you also execute a STRIGO OFF statement
when you no longer need to check for joystick button activity.
If you press a joystick button after a STRIG() OFF statement is
executed, BASIC does not remember that the joystick buttons
were pressed when joystick trapping is turned on again.
Example
See STRIG.
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