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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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