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- REM $TITLE: 'LARGEEXE'
-
- ' How to create a LARGE QB EXEcutable
- ' T. G. Muench January 1991
-
- REM $INCLUDE: 'C:\QBASIC\QB.BI'
-
- DEFINT A-Z
-
- ' Constants
-
- CONST FALSE = 0
- CONST TRUE = NOT FALSE
-
- Initialization:
-
- ON ERROR GOTO ErrorTrap
-
- ' Data for BASIC READ
-
- DATA 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
- DATA Now,is,the,time,for,all,good,persons,to,come
-
- ' I/O channel
-
- CHAN = 1
-
- REM $PAGE
-
- StartProgram:
-
- PRINT : PRINT "Integers"
- START! = TIMER
- FOR I = 1 TO 10
- READ DATA$
- PRINT I, VAL(DATA$)
- NEXT I
- PRINT "Ticks = "; 18.2 * (TIMER - START!)
- INPUT "Press Enter to continue: ", ENTRY$
-
- PRINT : PRINT "Strings"
- START! = TIMER
- FOR I = 11 TO 20
- READ DATA$
- PRINT I, DATA$
- NEXT I
- PRINT "Ticks = "; 18.2 * (TIMER - START!)
- INPUT "Press Enter to continue: ", ENTRY$
-
- PRINT : PRINT "Read ASCII file:"
- INPUT "File to read? ", FILE$
- IF FILE$ = "" THEN
- BEEP : PRINT "No file specified"
- ELSE
- INPUT "Display lines (Y,N)? ", ENTRY$
- IF UCASE$(ENTRY$) = "Y" THEN
- DISPLAY = TRUE
- ELSE
- DISPLAY = FALSE
- END IF
- START! = TIMER
- OPEN FILE$ FOR INPUT AS #CHAN
- DO UNTIL EOF(CHAN)
- LINE INPUT #CHAN, LINE$
- COUNT = COUNT + 1
- IF DISPLAY THEN
- PRINT LINE$
- END IF
- LOOP
- CLOSE #CHAN
- PRINT : PRINT "Read"; COUNT; "lines"
- PRINT "Ticks = "; 18.2 * (TIMER - START!)
- END IF
-
- GOTO EndProgram
-
- REM $PAGE
-
- ErrorTrap:
-
- IF ERR = 53 THEN
- BEEP : PRINT "File not found"
- RESUME EndProgram
- ELSE
- BEEP : PRINT "Unexpected error "; ERR
- RESUME EndProgram
- END IF
-
- EndProgram:
-
- END
-