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| random sorting | 3/12/2008 | Alex Barry |
Q: I have a program that was written by a friend, a long time ago, for Postal purposes. It displays a ...
A: Raymond, Yes, there are ways of sorting data in QBasic, but I'll need some more information about ...
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| Data into QuickBasic | 2/28/2008 | Alex Barry |
Q: I need to get some data into Quickbasic so I can crunch it and then display it. The data has 120 ...
A: Roy, Well, you would probably use the HEX$ or BIN$ functions to do bits. I don't quite understand ...
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| A Trillion Problems | 2/28/2008 | Alex Barry |
Q: How would I go about labeling 27 trillion, yes 27 trillion, different individual bits of data, each ...
A: Joseph, I hate to burst your bubble but QBasic would not be the language to use for this, not to ...
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| permutations | 2/28/2008 | QBasic Mac |
Q: I am not sure how to best do permutations. I have 5 functions (a - e). Every function does something ...
A: The following will do up to 7 permutations. If you enter abcdefg, you will get the 5,040 ...
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| permutations | 2/28/2008 | Alex Barry |
Q: I am not sure how to best do permutations. I have 5 functions (a - e). Every function does something ...
A: Well, the only way QBasic could do it easily is with FOR/NEXT loops, which could be quite painful ...
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| Getting data into a QB file | 2/26/2008 | QBasic Mac |
Q: I would like to take strings of data created in a Windows Vista program, (e.g. Microsoft Word or ...
A: The only way to use ctrl-v in DOS is via a Window. I don't have Vista so I don't know if this will ...
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| Printing QBasic to a Serial Port | 2/26/2008 | Alex Barry |
Q: I have been using Qbasic.4.5 since My daughter bought me an Atari keyboard that used a tape recorder ...
A: again, Tony, I'm following you now :) If your printer comes with it's own set of drivers and works ...
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| Printing QBasic to a Serial Port | 2/25/2008 | Alex Barry |
Q: I have been using Qbasic.4.5 since My daughter bought me an Atari keyboard that used a tape recorder ...
A: Tony, I'm a little confused whether or not you are using an old commadore system or something ...
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| "Lines in quick basic | 2/12/2008 | Alex Barry |
Q: Ive gotten to pick you to help me on how to draw lines in q-basic especially to the right of the ...
A: In QBasic, to draw lines, first you need to set the Screen. For amusement, we'll use Screen 12 ...
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| computing | 2/5/2008 | Don Schullian |
Q: Excuse my english, I'm italian 70 years old. I have generated 10000 files .txt.Each file contains ...
A: Giuseppe, Your English is much better than my Italian! ;) The solution is not, particularly, ...
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| Qbasic and QuickBasic | 2/4/2008 | Don Schullian |
Q: I have some QuickBasic programs that I wrote about 15 years ago, my wife and I still use one of ...
A: I've heard war-stories both ways. Some seem to run OK while others won't! If I've got my facts ...
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| Qbasic Database | 2/1/2008 | Don Schullian |
Q: Can anybody help me out?
A: You've asked a very basic question but one that is not quickly answered. All 3 of the file types can ...
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| Printing through Ethernet IP Address | 1/28/2008 | Alex Barry |
Q: We have QBasic running on several computers that are networked to our laser printer via ethernet ...
A: Jeremy, Unfortunately, to solve the problem, I'd need to know the brand/series of your printer. ...
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| Help in qb | 1/22/2008 | Don Schullian |
Q: I tought myself qbasic 7.1 and have been trying to find a way to use the mouse. So I looked for a ...
A: To be honest, I've been using PowerBASIC for so long now that I've not looked into other compilers. ...
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| Help in qb | 1/19/2008 | Don Schullian |
Q: I tought myself qbasic 7.1 and have been trying to find a way to use the mouse. So I looked for a ...
A: To be honest I've not written code for the mouse (for DOS) in over a decade and never tried to ...
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| Help in Qbasic | 1/19/2008 | Alex Barry |
Q: I tought myself qbasic 7.1 and have been trying to find a way to use the mouse. So I looked for a ...
A: sir, It just so happens that most of your questions have been in my recent answers to other ...
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| File manupulation in QBasic | 1/18/2008 | Alex Barry |
Q: I have 10 files that need to be appended together. All the files are in the same folder and have ...
A: Nick, What you want to do is thankfully simple :) If this is a one time use program, this is how I ...
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| Quick Libraries | 1/15/2008 | Alex Barry |
Q: I am currently working on a program that is requiring a maintenance library. I have the .lib file ...
A: Chad, There could be a few problems. The most likely case us that this, 'maint,' library was not ...
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| Programming DB | 1/11/2008 | Don Schullian |
Q: It's been years since I dabbled with writing qbasic code :-D I wanted to open with that because,, ...
A: Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I've been on vacation and forgot to tell All Experts! ...
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| qbasic | 12/9/2007 | QBasic Mac |
Q: I am new to Qbasic .I am supposed to write a program that read in the data from the below listed ...
A: You need to use an arraly to hold the values, not load them into individual variables like a$, b$. ...
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| Data file | 12/6/2007 | Alex Barry |
Q: I am running a compiled Qbasic program on Windows 98 when it writes to my data file it is dropping ...
A: freelin, this sounds like a strange problem. you'll have to show me some code so i can figure out ...
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| ARRAY | 11/26/2007 | Don Schullian |
Q: Create a program which will ask teh user to input their last name, character by character and than ...
A: Of course you don't know how to do this, that's what homework is for. ;) Anyhow, we don't do ...
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| language translation | 11/22/2007 | Alex Barry |
Q: the email address is fake. i can only be contacted by snail mail at 304 4th Ave W Apt 2 Grinnell IA ...
A: Keith, I don't know of any c/c++ to *basic converters. Most things that are done in c/c++ simply ...
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| Sequential Sort | 11/20/2007 | Alex Barry |
Q: am writing a program that will randomly generate 10 numbers between 1 and 10 and assigning them to ...
A: Susan Luckily, I don't think this requires much effort, so although I can pretty much assume this ...
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| QBasic Sequential Sort | 11/20/2007 | QBasic Mac |
Q: I am writing a program that will randomly generate 10 numbers between 1 and 10 and assigning them to ...
A: FOR Count = 1 TO 10 Number(Count) = INT(RND) * (10 - 1 +1)) IF Number(Count) = 5 THEN ...
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| QBasic Sequential Sort | 11/20/2007 | Don Schullian |
Q: I wrote a program that will randomly generate 10 numbers btween 1 and 10 and assigned them to an ...
A: First of all, sorry for the delay. I've been without service for about a week now. To print ...
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| mouse | 11/19/2007 | Alex Barry |
Q: it's me again. I tried the mouse program you wrote but couldn't get it to work, I think some stuff ...
A: Daniel. I forgot to mention you need this at the start of the program: '$include: 'qb.bi' this ...
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| qb 4.5 mouse program & libraries | 11/16/2007 | Alex Barry |
Q: i've been trying to make a mouse program work for qb 4.5 and i found a library, but i don't know how ...
A: Daniel. Since I don't know which mouse library you are using, I can't help you with how to use it, ...
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| connect algorithm | 11/13/2007 | QBasic Mac |
Q: How are you? I'd like to ask for your opinion regarding a programming obstacle I have. I have a ...
A: This is going to take several experts to find out what exactly you want. How about coming to ...
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| connect algorithm | 11/13/2007 | QBasic Mac |
Q: How are you? I'd like to ask for your opinion regarding a programming obstacle I have. I have a ...
A: I need some more info, preferably a copy of your program. Could you post it here? If not, could you ...
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| connect algorithm | 11/13/2007 | Alex Barry |
Q: How are you? I'd like to ask for your opinion regarding a programming obstacle I have. I have a ...
A: Eric, I don't fully understand your problem here, but I'm going to take a wild stab at it. First ...
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| connect algorithm | 11/13/2007 | Don Schullian |
Q: How are you? I'd like to ask for your opinion regarding a programming obstacle I have. I have a ...
A: I'm not 100% sure that I'm the guy you need to be asking this question of. The programming you ...
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| Qbasic Random numbers to string | 11/13/2007 | Alex Barry |
Q: I have created a bit of a difficult piece of programming for myself. What I would like to do is ...
A: If you want DOS to access the internet, this is a good link to get you on the right track: ...
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| Qbasic Random numbers to string | 11/13/2007 | Alex Barry |
Q: I have created a bit of a difficult piece of programming for myself. What I would like to do is ...
A: J, First, I'd like to thank you for asking your question clearly, and reading some of my past ...
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| Qbasic help | 11/11/2007 | QBasic Mac |
Q: i need help! im new to qbasic, just want to create a program for my own business, im trying to input ...
A: I recommend that you use Microsoft Word for your business rather than try to write your own database ...
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| Generating a matrix in Qbasic | 11/8/2007 | Don Schullian |
Q: I'd like assitance in creating an 8 by 10 matrix using qbasic. Thanks ANSWER: Hi, A matrix in ...
A: This code from my previous answer should work for you. Each element will have a value if one higher ...
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| for loops | 11/7/2007 | Alex Barry |
Q: hey, i have a quick question. if this was the program sintax: for counter = 1 to 12 step 3 ...
A: Linds, Although I believe this question has "this is my homework" written all over it, i'll help ...
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| Generating a matrix in Qbasic | 11/7/2007 | Don Schullian |
Q: I'd like assitance in creating an 8 by 10 matrix using qbasic. Thanks
A: A matrix in BASIC is called an array. Array element numbers start with zero (for best results) so ...
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| QBX - Make EXE | 10/30/2007 | Alex Barry |
Q: I got a weird one! When I open QBX (no switches) an open my .bas file and run it using Shift+F5 I ...
A: ) My only comment is that if it doesn't work when you open it normally (no debug switch), then it ...
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| QBX - Make EXE | 10/30/2007 | Alex Barry |
Q: I got a weird one! When I open QBX (no switches) an open my .bas file and run it using Shift+F5 I ...
A: Deltaoo, The reason you're getting an overflow is either: a) you are using arrays are have an ...
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