--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 214 POWER BASIC Ref: CEW00007 Date: 10/25/95 From: ZACK JONES Time: 03:30pm \/To: JAMSHID KHOSHRANGI (Read 4 times) Subj: What's Wrong with This? > Glad to see you back in BASIC, Zack! Thanks, of course I'm used to calling your Quinn %^). I'm writing more and more in PB and I'm having a blast! I'm sure I'll be posting more questions, etc 'round here. BTW, thanks for all of the code you've been posting -- I'm grabbing all I n! Take Care, Zack Jones zack@hom.net --- InterMail 2.29g * Origin: Zack's Gotta Point (1:3611/18.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 214 POWER BASIC Ref: CEW00008 Date: 10/25/95 From: ZACK JONES Time: 03:33pm \/To: JAMSHID KHOSHRANGI (Read 4 times) Subj: FDSTAT.BAS Source > MTIMER > FOR x = 1 TO 1000 > FOR i = 1 TO 4 > ON i GOSUB 1, 2, 3, 4 > NEXT > NEXT i > PRINT MTIMER Man, this one is mucho times faster! Thanks, I'll try converting over to something like this and see what kind of benchmarks I get. Take Care, Zack Jones zack@hom.net --- InterMail 2.29g * Origin: Zack's Gotta Point (1:3611/18.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 214 POWER BASIC Ref: CEW00009 Date: 10/25/95 From: ZACK JONES Time: 03:34pm \/To: JAMSHID KHOSHRANGI (Read 4 times) Subj: Stronger, Better, Faster > Some speed hints that I've come up with: Thanks much! Take Care, Zack Jones zack@hom.net --- InterMail 2.29g * Origin: Zack's Gotta Point (1:3611/18.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 214 POWER BASIC Ref: CEW00010 Date: 10/25/95 From: ZACK JONES Time: 03:56pm \/To: JAMSHID KHOSHRANGI (Read 4 times) Subj: Your Promotion > Congratulations on your promotion to co-moderator of our > humble echo. Thanks. This place seems to have that small, easy-going atmosphere which I really like. > I thought I'd bring you up to speed as to what I've been up > to in PowerBASIC. > The $60,000 process of developing a language within a > language has given me a look into PowerBASIC, let me tell you! I don't doubt it! > It has also produced some useful code that I will soon be > releasing as a commercial PB library called "MondoLib for PB." Sounds good -- when do you expect it'll be out? > NOT be a huge Hanlin-like collection of routines. Tom is good for that sort of thing isn't he %^) > I've also been considering writing a book on advanced PB > programming, but I don't know how big a base there is with PB, > so I don't know that that would be profitable. You might want to consider an overall PB book. Something that goes from the basics up through advanced stuff. Something like Tom Swan's Mastering Turbo Pascal. > Now, how about you? What have YOU been up to? Do you still > work for the TELIX people? Well I went to work for the Telix guys and picked up Pascal while I was working with them. After spending a year in-house with them I moved back home with my family and continued to do support for them. Earlier this year they decided they wanted all support folks in house and since I didn't move back they let me go %^(. I'm now working for an ISP and am learning all sorts of stuff about unix, etc. I've written a few utilities for work so far and will soon rewrite our billing program which is written in QB and has lots of goto's %^). I'll convert that over to PB. What I'd like write is a program which automates the process of getting my fido mail. I have the mail delivered to our server at hom.net and then I call in and download it with a Telix script. What I'd like to do is write my own little comm program which calls, logs into our server, ftp's the new mail and then downloads it from our server to my PC. If I can find a PB lib that supports Zmodem I'll use that -- otherwise I'll write it in Pascal. So that should about bring us up to speed %^) -- on with the programming! Take Care, Zack Jones zack@hom.net --- InterMail 2.29g * Origin: Zack's Gotta Point (1:3611/18.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 214 POWER BASIC Ref: CEX00000 Date: 10/25/95 From: JAMES GOLDBLOOM Time: 06:45pm \/To: BOB SEWELL (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: EGA in Desqview & OS/2 BS-> Did (or do) any of them use screen mode 9 (EGA graphics)? If BS-> so, did you have to fiddle with the DOS mode configuration elements BS-> in OS/2 Warp to make them run? Yes, to the first part, and no to the second. I've had no troubles at all, to report at this time. I suggest with Warp that you increase the window refresh setting to about 4 from the default of 1 in the DOS session settings screen, and also "inform of switch" (the exact name escapes me, but the setting which determines if the application has gone full screen or not) should be disabled for non-windows programs. Just some suggestions. -James --- QuickBBS 2.80 GoldBase (Zeta-1) * Origin: AD Message BBS/10th Year Online! (703)998-2958 (1:109/611@FIDONET) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 214 POWER BASIC Ref: CEX00001 Date: 10/25/95 From: MARK NORTHCUTT Time: 06:46pm \/To: JOSE MEJUTO (Read 4 times) Subj: PBCAE 0.91 JM>split the message in his systems, and you can receive more than the two parts JM>have posted; in this case you must glue all parts in one file. would you mind reposting this? It looks very interesting. I got two parts but the second one ended abruptly as though it was truncated. The .zip file would not uncompress due to file error. Thanks!! --- SLMR 2.1a Drawing on fine command of language, I said nothing. * Origin: (1:3605/13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 214 POWER BASIC Ref: CEX00002 Date: 10/25/95 From: GARY PRICE Time: 11:31pm \/To: BOB DUNNELL (Read 4 times) Subj: Hashing BD> Basically, you make a file bigger than it needs to be, and then you BD> put data into it based on a certain formula. If something's where t BD> data you're adding "belongs," you put it in the next available slot. BD> This speeds up most searches because the program can decide where to BD> start looking for a data item. BD> BD> As far as I know, no language specifically supports it. It's like BD> recursive programming; it's a technique with no real specific BD> implementation. Thanks...... I also got some input directly of the author file's that I am tring to open and read.. Cya! Gary --- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - #98 * Origin: Freejack's Place * Vinemont, Al * (205) 739-7121 (1:3607/26.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 214 POWER BASIC Ref: CEX00003 Date: 10/26/95 From: ERIC SCHONNING Time: 05:22am \/To: BOB SEWELL (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: What's Wrong with This? BS> I'm going back to school in January to get my Computer Science BS> degree, so I'll be doing C. Someone really needs to get these BS> universities into the '90s and have 'em teach PowerBASIC, VB/Win, BS> Delphi and PowerBuilder, eh? ;-) You don't know how correct you are with this statement. I am currently going for a BS in computer science and so far consider it the most gigantic waste of time and money I think I've ever experienced. I thought they would be teaching us how to be good programmers and all the latest technologies but not so. Its mostly a bunch of quite useless theorectical crap, spaced out amongst some almost interesting material. Mind you this is the 300 level stuff, the 100 and 200 level stuff (like what you would take if you went for an AS degree) was reasonably interesting and seemed to have purpose, but once it went above that into 300/400/500 level it went downhill quickly. I have this mental picture now of acadameia living in a box and too stupid to realize that there is a world outside of their box, so they continue to teach the worthless crap they learned in the 50's and 60's. Its just a shame that companies look upon degree's and something useful and don't pay for just raw experience (I work for just such a company). I really feel sorry for the people I know there who know little about computers and are taking these classes thinking they are learning something useful or that they will become good programmers as this school is just not geared to produce such things. Eric --- QM v1.00 * Origin: Creekside Manor (805) 484-8016 CdCom Support BBS (1:206/2512.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 214 POWER BASIC Ref: CEX00004 Date: 10/27/95 From: ZACK JONES Time: 12:09pm \/To: BOB SEWELL (Read 4 times) Subj: What's Wrong with This? > Good to see you again, Zack! Thanks, Bob! > Put a "#" (pound sign) in front of the FileHandle1 variable in the line > giving you the trouble. I did that and everything is working just fine. > I'm going back to school in January to get my Computer Science > degree, so I'll be doing C. Good luck with your studies. > Someone really needs to get these > universities into the '90s and have 'em teach PowerBASIC, > VB/Win, Delphi and PowerBuilder, eh? ;-) Yea, really. Get rid of those cobal and fortan classes %^) Take Care, Zack Jones zack@hom.net --- InterMail 2.29g * Origin: Zack's Gotta Point (1:3611/18.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 214 POWER BASIC Ref: CEX00005 Date: 10/27/95 From: ZACK JONES Time: 12:10pm \/To: DANIEL STASINSKI (Read 4 times) Subj: What's Wrong with This? > Without the '#' sign, LINE INPUT thinks you are trying to read a > LINE INPUT into two variables (whis is not possible). The '#' lets > the compiler know that you are referring to a file handle. Makes sense, thanks Dan. Take Care, Zack Jones zack@hom.net --- InterMail 2.29g * Origin: Zack's Gotta Point (1:3611/18.10)