[Coco] DEF USR and strings?

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Allen Huffman via Coco once stated:
> > On Oct 29, 2025, at 6:15 PM, Bruce Borer via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I do not know what can and cannot be done (yet) but can you pass the
> > address (number) of the string and use the pointer in USRn to do what you
> > want?
> 
> Yes, the way we’ve always done it is to use VARPTR. I have an article
> series on my site where I dove into how that worked.
>
> But, earlier this year I saw someone post saying you didn’t need to use
> VARPTR. That stuck in the back of my mind until I had time to revisit the
> subject (now). That would make things much easier.

  Yes, that probably was my blog posts:

	https://boston.conman.org/2024/11/26.2-3

where I go into how to use DEFUSR with Color BASIC and Extended Color BASIC.

  -spc