| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
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| Some other questions | 10/22/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I have some general questions today. Please help me with them: 1. How do you input only 1 character ...
A: Shane, There might be a DOS shortcut in the directory (a pif file). If there is, delete it. Then ...
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| Some other questions | 10/21/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I have some general questions today. Please help me with them: 1. How do you input only 1 character ...
A: Shane, For question#1, you can use this code: PRINT "Question? [Y/N] "; DIM answer AS STRING * 1 ...
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| Search problem | 10/18/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I'm doing a library catalog program for my school project. I'm having problem in the Search() SUB ...
A: Shane, I think this is the problem with your code: FOR M = START TO LEN(C$) P$ = MID$(C$, M, 1) IF ...
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| read statements | 10/13/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: could you please explain read and data statements and how to use them. i have a very usless hardass ...
A: corndog (nice nickname), I can definitely help you understand READ and DATA statements. A data ...
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| qbasic serialport on xp | 10/10/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I am developing some simple robotics projects - eg remote lawnmower. I was hoping to do some simple ...
A: David, I do believe you are right about windows limiting access to hardware from a dos-prompt. ...
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| dos converting | 9/30/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: Is there a way to convert messages sent to me in DOS form over to windows or through another tool? I ...
A: Skip, Well, this isn't the DOS section, this is the QBasic section - I'm not as well in knowledge ...
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| array in qbasic function | 9/16/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: Is it possible to pass array as an argument/parameter in qbasic function? if yes, please let me ...
A: Ranj, Yes, to pass an array to a SUB/FUNCTION, this is what you'd need to do: DECLARE SUB ...
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| triangle | 9/4/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: how can put for loop ina program and how can creat a triangle shap with a charactor
A: navin, To make a for loop, this is what you do: FOR variable% = minvalue% TO maxvalue% [STEP ...
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| quick basic | 8/28/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: i have told to take out the sum of first five even numbers.. how to do... explain
A: Vasudha, Well, I don't know what you mean by "take out the sum" but I can tell you have to check to ...
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| batch file wanted | 8/19/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I'm trying to make a batch file to back up new documents to a flash drive so if the hard drive goes ...
A: Jim, First, I want to note that this is the QBasic section, and not a DOS-Batch section, so ...
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| Input text file | 7/29/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I'm trying to input a text file,without commas, such as - John Doe 9 $2,000,000 Bill Niceguy 12 ...
A: John, First, I want to address a problem I see with your example inputted information (and how we ...
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| hide password details | 7/12/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: how do i hide password details so when i input my password it displays *'s
A: Rasheed, I've heard a lot of people ask this question (here, and on various qbasic forums), so I ...
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| acquiring/controlling usb with Quickbasic | 7/6/2009 | Alex Barry |
Q: I would like to use an old application written in quickbasic (which acquired/controlled data from ...
A: Sonia, There are two options for updating the code. My first option would be to download FreeBASIC ...
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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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