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- H#: 64328 S12/SPECTRA Publishing
- 06-Sep-90 15:47:38
- Sb: #64143-Peace and Quiet !
- Fm: JOHN E. SHIREY 75676,223
- To: Bob Zale: PowerBASIC R&D 76304,1303 (X)
-
- Bob:
- Wow! The new version sounds so exciting a nominal charge would not be a
- problem. This looks like a possible rebirth of the BASIC language. I can hardly
- wait!
- J.Shirey
-
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- H#: 64316 S12/SPECTRA Publishing
- 06-Sep-90 15:07:17
- Sb: #63936-Peace and Quiet !
- Fm: Harry McDonald 74776,1017
- To: Richard Thompson 73200,3071
-
- Richard: Don't buy "Hands-on Turbo BASIC" by Larry Joel Goldstein. We gave it
- an award as the worst quickie computer book ever written. We never heard from
- the Chairman of Paramount (head company of the publisher. If you want the
- sordid details, let me know. Harry
-
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- H#: 64415 S12/SPECTRA Publishing
- 07-Sep-90 00:33:08
- Sb: #63702-Peace and Quiet !
- Fm: Howard Ballinger 71121,776
- To: Bob Zale: PowerBASIC R&D 76304,1303 (X)
-
-
- Bob --
-
- Well since you ask -- I DO have a li'l Wish List.
-
- 1. In the editor, a global Search/Replace that would only operate
- within a Marked Block (i.e. after you respond G or GN to the
- last prompt it would give you a choice of
- WITHIN MARKED BLOCK / EVERYWHERE.)
- 2. Limited windowing within the editor -- just split the screen in half
- so you could read and edit two parts of the same file at once.
- 3. Catch all unassigned Named Constants during compile (instead of
- giving them oddball values !!)
- 4. Be able to properly ERASE a STATIC array DIMensioned in my main file
- by means of an ERASE command in a unit. (gives Err 242. I have to
- use a FOR .. NEXT structure instead to set each element to "")
- 5. PBPLUS96 to work on my EGA (an Orchid w/ 256 K.) instead of blanking
- the screen entirely & permanently.
- 6. A Color Function that would return the color currently set (i.e. by
- the last COLOR F%, B% statement) so a SUB could save & restore it ??
-
- Thanks again for all your help. Your response to my last array problem
- (caused by disregarding warnings I'd already seen to say DIM STATIC or
- DIM DYNAMIC explicitly) was both fast and right, as usual.
-
- Regards,
- -- Howard
-
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- H#: 64398 S12/SPECTRA Publishing
- 06-Sep-90 21:19:18
- Sb: #64199-#$Link & ^KP Questions
- Fm: Richard Kanarek 72371,111
- To: Barry Erick for Spectra 75300,214 (X)
-
- Hello again. Regarding patches: My disk was sent to me with most/all of the
- patches installed at Spectra (there was some problem with my order so the nice
- people at Spectra took care of the bug fixing while they took care of the order
- fixing). On your recommendation, I went back and reinstalled all the patches
- myself- discovering that PB033090.PAT results in the message "The version of
- PB.EXE that you are trying to patch is not he same one that this patch data was
- designed for!". Why did I get that message? Also, after preforming the other
- two patches sucessfully, I went back and tried my experiment again- once again,
- when ever there are no blank lines at the end of the basic program, the
- assembly program won't print (to console) at all! I am quite supprised that you
- did not get the same results. You did completely remove ALL the blank lines? I
- have access to a genuine IBM PS/2 Model 50z at work and I shall try my
- experiment again there and let you know of my results (Mon./Tues. night).
- Richard.
-
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- H#: 64469 S12/SPECTRA Publishing
- 07-Sep-90 07:23:06
- Sb: #64398-$Link & ^KP Questions
- Fm: Barry Erick for Spectra 75300,214
- To: Richard Kanarek 72371,111
-
- No, I had the balcnk problem with the shipping version. This won't be needed in
- the future when you get 2.10 after it ships (soon, we hope)
- The patch did not find the info in the file at the location needed, so it
- didn't munge the file. But since the patches were installed (actually it was
- re-compiled with the fixes and patched weren't needed) at Spectra, yu need not
- install them yourself.
- == Barry
-
-
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- H#: 64324 S12/SPECTRA Publishing
- 06-Sep-90 15:25:37
- Sb: #64136-Wishes and a Buglet
- Fm: Bill Harrison 71170,673
- To: Bob Zale: PowerBASIC R&D 76304,1303 (X)
-
- I hadn't really gotten into playing with PBINST yet. Maybe I'll give it a try.
- I'm not all that crazy about the Double Control keys anyway. Never did like
- Wordstar.
-
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- H#: 64297 S12/SPECTRA Publishing
- 06-Sep-90 13:53:59
- Sb: #New Functions
- Fm: Henry Piper 72330,1721
- To: ALL
-
- I have uploaded the program GETCWD.ZIP in response to Bob Zales request for
- activity. It allows you to obtain from DOS the current drive and directory you
- are working in. It uses Power Windows, but can be changed to work without them.
- It shows (to a degree) how to use the call interrupt functions to interface
- with DOS and some string functions. The display attributes may need to be
- changed for the display you have in the windows calls. I used a flex string not
- so much because I needed to, but just to see how it would work.
- PS: Bob, You could add something like this to the next version of PB.
-
-
-
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- H#: 64312 S12/SPECTRA Publishing
- 06-Sep-90 14:46:47
- Sb: #64297-#New Functions
- Fm: Barry Erick for Spectra 75300,214
- To: Henry Piper 72330,1721 (X)
-
- Henry,
- That is one thing you'll find built into 2.10 ....
- --- Barry
-
-
-
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- H#: 64345 S12/SPECTRA Publishing
- 06-Sep-90 17:40:25
- Sb: #64312-#New Functions
- Fm: Henry Piper 72330,1721
- To: Barry Erick for Spectra 75300,214 (X)
-
- Well then, how about a function to return the current display type and mode?
-
-
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- H#: 64409 S12/SPECTRA Publishing
- 06-Sep-90 22:15:40
- Sb: #64345-New Functions
- Fm: Barry Erick for Spectra 75300,214
- To: Henry Piper 72330,1721
-
- I don't think that is in there, as I still have the function in a new program.
- --- Barry
-
-
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- H#: 64364 S12/SPECTRA Publishing
- 06-Sep-90 18:30:48
- Sb: Cmd Line Parser
- Fm: Henry Piper 72330,1721
- To: All
-
- Someone Wanted a command line parser, here is one.
-
- ON ERROR GOTO ErrorHandler NUMARGS = 0 TRUE = -1 FALSE = NOT TRUE INCLUDED =
- FALSE DIM ARGS$(25) cmd$ = COMMAND$ ' Get the command line STRLEN =
- LEN(cmd$)
- FOR I = 1 TO STRLEN ' Parse the command line looking for delimiters
- TEMP$ = MID$(cmd$, I, 1)
- IF (TEMP$ <> " " AND TEMP$ <> CHR$(9)) THEN 'We have a delimiter
- IF NOT INCLUDED THEN
- NUMARGS = NUMARGS + 1 'Increment count
- INCLUDED = TRUE
- END IF
- ARGS$(NUMARGS) = ARGS$(NUMARGS) + TEMP$ 'Save the string
- ELSE
- INCLUDED = FALSE
- END IF
- NEXT I FOR I = 1 TO NUMARGS 'Display
- arguments Print "Argument number: ";I;" is: "; ARGS$(I) NEXT I END
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