About Don Schullian Expertise I`ve worked in BASIC since the Commodore days and maintain a web site part of which is devoted to helping others with thier problems. I`m proficient in all versions of PowerBASIC but cross over to QuickBASIC and Qbasic frequently.
Question I have been using QBASIC for many years, but with my newer computers (from 1992 on)the LPRINT statements do not work. I have gotten around the problem by using WRITE #1, but this does not allow the formatting of the output. For example I cannot create a for-next loop to print a series of numbers in a single line.
As an example:
F$ = "###,###,###,###,###,###"
FOR i = 1 to 5
x(i) = i^2
NEXT i
FOR J = 1 to 5
LPRINT USING F$; x(j);
NEXT J
END
Answer Hi,
Unfortunately this is just the way things are going. I'm now using VISTA which likes DOS less than XP did, and if/when W7 comes out I don't hold out much hope. As far as you're problem goes the only trusty solution I can think of that is going to work across all the different printers (remember they, too, aren't 100% compatible with each other) is to create the whole line of print using a string variable then print that variable.
I don't know if this will help you or not but it's free so nothing is lost. Go to this URL and download DOSPrint.
