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| Number of files in a folder. | 7/3/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I haven't programmed in Quick Basic in years, but dusted it off again for a quick fix I need for a ...
A: Gerjan, The simplest way to do this is to use DOS inside QBasic. Here is how I would do it: ...
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| qbasic strings | 6/25/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I need help with my code, I have asked my teacher but she's not that nice and doesnt really make me ...
A: Jorge, I think I can point you in the right direction. Your code for getting the length (your FOR ...
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| What is text1.text in qbasic | 6/24/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I'm taking classes for a 9th grade student from a different school. She's got the following code for ...
A: Smitha, text1.text is definately a variable, but just how it is written, it looks like it is more ...
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| QB45 Application Update | 6/22/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: Alex, I have an old QB45 application that I wrote in the early 90s. It uses vga screen mode 12 and ...
A: James, I don't think visual basic will do what you want, however, there are a few options you could ...
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| RAm program | 6/14/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I asked a question earlier, not sure if this would help. Thxs if u can help. Im rlly clueless about ...
A: Sorry it took me a while to get back to this - I've had my plate full for a little while. It's ...
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| RAM program | 6/12/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I have no clue on how to do this RAM program. Write a program that lets the LED turn on one a time ...
A: Jon, I haven't tinkered with this sort of thing (LEDs...probably through the parallel port?), but I ...
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| qbasic lotto numbers | 6/8/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: hey i was wondering if you could help me with my assignments. In one of them I have to print 6 ...
A: Jorge, I'm glad to hear you want to be a programmer. I'll say as much that QBasic doesn't have a ...
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| Q-Basic for Vista 64 | 5/30/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: is there a download available?
A: Donn, The short answer is no, there is no Qbasic version that is specifically built for windows ...
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| "printscreen" from Quick Basic | 5/29/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I have a laptop with XP. At one time -- I think on an old Win98 system computer -- I used to put ...
A: again, As far as I knew, the print screen function was working with qbasic in windows xp. I just ...
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| freebasic | 5/22/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I am fairly new to FREEBASIC and have not written many programmes. I had version 4.6 and updated to ...
A: Hey, Bill, Okay, that makes quite a bit more sense (with the version being fbide). So, if the ...
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| need a perfect data to save!! | 5/17/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: for some reason i need to store a perfect number in a file. by perfect number i mean like ...
A: Saif, Sorry for the delay. 1. As far as storing a large number, if there is no decimal, use a long ...
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| freebasic | 5/15/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I am fairly new to FREEBASIC and have not written many programmes. I had version 4.6 and updated to ...
A: Bill, I'm not sure what versions you are using. Right now, the compiler version is 0.20beta ...so ...
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| Creating a Password file in Q Basic | 5/4/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I've been trying to create an Email program that allows a user to sign up, and also view their ...
A: Sovann, To do this sort of program, you'll need to do a lot of work on your code. First, I'm going ...
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| Qbasic line splitting, filtering program | 5/3/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: Can QBasic be used to read in (or filter) a text (.txt) file that has more that 256 comma delimited ...
A: Don, I think you would want something like this: DIM i AS INTEGER DIM l AS INTEGER DIM d AS ...
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| Variable in Open | 4/27/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I am trying to make a program which makes you input your name then uses open statement to make a ...
A: again, Chad, I think you may benefit from some code I just posted to answer another person'sTo do ...
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| Variable in Open | 4/24/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I am trying to make a program which makes you input your name then uses open statement to make a ...
A: Chad, This is a fairly common issue, but I can definately help you out. In QBasic, anything ...
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| Program | 4/13/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: Yo what's up. I have a program to do. We get 2 numbers to input. Lets say the numbers are 4 and 5. ...
A: Rijad, To be honest, I've never done a program to do this, but I'll see what I can do to help you ...
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| QuickBasic 4.5 | 4/4/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I've made quite a lot of programs in QB,they still run as EXE prog.in XP & Vista but since USB ...
A: So, if your question is how to make that code work with a usb printer: 6000 DIM toprint AS STRING ...
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| leap year program for qbasic | 3/31/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I need to know how to write a leap year program on quickbasic but i cant figure it out will someone ...
A: Daniel, To figure that out, check out this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214019 To move ...
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| IP Addresses | 3/26/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: but could you please tell me how to find other person's IP address when we are chatting with that ...
A: Raman, You'll have to tell me how you are chatting with dos commands. Are you running a chat ...
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| QuickBasic 4.5 | 3/25/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I've made quite a lot of programs in QB,they still run as EXE prog.in XP & Vista but since USB ...
A: Laurent, Yes, it is true, DOS has some trouble communicating with USB printers, but there is a ...
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| DOS(disk operating sysytem) | 3/25/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I am Raman .I wanna do DOS commands course could you please tell me that what the DOS commands ...
A: Raman, I think a good place to start is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DOS_commands As ...
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| Status Bit from serial port | 3/24/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I was wondering if you could help. I am using DOS for a EPoS application and I need to know how to ...
A: Andy, I can see what you are doing, but I think to help you, I'll need to see all of your code. ...
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| qb45/NI-488.2/WindowsXP | 3/23/2009 | Don Schullian |
Q: I'm trying to get qb45 to talk/listen to test equipment over the gpib. The system is Windows XP and ...
A: Sorry, I'm not going to be much help. I never messed that much with serial devices under DOS and ...
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| script writing | 3/22/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I was wondering if you could help me write a simple "run" program or script. I have Windows Vista. ...
A: Paul, This really isn't a QBasic question, but here are a few ideas: On your desktop, do a right ...
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| im a begginer on Qbasic can you help me? | 3/15/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: look i have been reading Qbasic for a little while now im on chapter 10 im having a hard time ...
A: Greg, I have no idea what book you are on chapter 10 on, but if you want advice for creating ...
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| Finding modes with Qbasic | 3/13/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: Hey i'm a teacher and have been trying to write a program that will be able to give me information ...
A: Jason, If you wanted to get the mode (most common number, yes?), there are a few ways to do it. I ...
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| Passing Parameters | 3/12/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: i hope you can give me some idea regarding my problem. Can I pass a parameter coming from the ...
A: Again, QBasic doesn't have a built in function to see if a file exists. There are a few "hacks" to ...
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| Unique number generating | 3/10/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I read your past answers but none of them seemed to help me with my problem.(this is the first time ...
A: Thomas, To solve this, the easiest way is to make an array that stores all the numbers you draw. ...
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| COMPILED QUCKBASIC FILE | 3/9/2009 | Don Schullian |
Q: I have a compiled quickbasic program that runs on my machine, the machine that created the *.exe ...
A: Welcome, Dennis, to the Wild World of Programming! ;) That said there is no "logical" reason for ...
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| Passing Parameters | 3/9/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: i hope you can give me some idea regarding my problem. Can I pass a parameter coming from the ...
A: Jojo, What you'll want is to use the COMMAND$() built-in array. I'm not sure if this will work ...
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| help | 3/6/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I see you are an expert with qbasic, so i thought you sure were able to help me with my problem. See ...
A: Faris, It looks like there are 3 steps to this program. First, you have to get the string name: ...
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| LPRINT statements | 2/26/2009 | Don Schullian |
Q: I have been using QBASIC for many years, but with my newer computers (from 1992 on)the LPRINT ...
A: Unfortunately this is just the way things are going. I'm now using VISTA which likes DOS less than ...
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| Combining files | 2/25/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I have a series of .txt files that are all the same number rows and columns with rows separated by ...
A: Tim, If I were you, this is how I would do it: ' x is the number of files you intend on using. ...
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| Quic Basic string manipulation | 2/24/2009 | Don Schullian |
Q: I am working in QB 4.5 and trying to manipulate a string that represents sample information Below is ...
A: Hay Tim, Ok, you've done the hard work! ;) Lets say you've got your file names in an array F$() ...
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| Quic Basic string manipulation | 2/22/2009 | Don Schullian |
Q: I am working in QB 4.5 and trying to manipulate a string that represents sample information Below is ...
A: The code below seems to work. I wrote routines like these decades ago but couldn't find the ...
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| Commodore 64 BASIC help | 2/20/2009 | Don Schullian |
Q: I've been trying to write a program for C64 BASIC that uses a custom character set. According to ...
A: I'm taking a shot here. By poking 12 into the low nibble all you're doing is changing a portion of ...
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| help!!!! | 2/14/2009 | Don Schullian |
Q: sir i live in india im in class vii i need u to answer this question by to-morrow.The question ...
A: This isn't as difficult as you may think. As we don't do homework here the best I can do for you is ...
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| qbasic | 2/11/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: Me again. Thanks for your help so far. I have your code up and running. The reason I tried it was ...
A: Hey, Bill, A thought just occured to me, this may not help though, but in the UDT for RegType, ...
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| From which website you download Qbasic? | 2/8/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: From which website you download Qbasic?
A: harsh, There used to be quite a few places to download it, but it seems that this number is ...
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