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- From: davecole@cie.uoregon.edu.uoregon.edu (Dave Cole)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Minimal QuickBASIC upgrade.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.002941.21171@nntp.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 00:29:41 GMT
- Article-I.D.: nntp.1992Sep7.002941.21171
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- Ralph,
- I believe that the upgrade was intended to make QB, System 7 tolerant. I.E
- it now compiles right.
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- They also fixed a few looses ends in it as well. The EXISTS command now
- works, and a few other new commands (they were undocumented in Rev D) now
- are documented. copyfile now works after a fashon, the scrolltext function
- now has another modifier for vert line spacing, sublaunch still does not
- function as it should, several machine types were added to the SYSTEM call
- and a few other odd thingzs. All in all I would say it was a bug fix release.
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- Once you "get into" the basic, something I am not sure I would have done
- had I known just how "different" QB was, it will do a lot. However the
- applications I have written are so damned big that I had to break it into
- 7 different applications. <sigh> The damned thing still uses most of
- the mac, even for shorter applications.
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- Dave
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