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Thank you so much! Now I was able to download it. Thank God or rare gems like WinRAR! And for people so willing to help!...
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Robert Wishlaw
rwishlaw@...
Sep 1, 2001 9:08 pm
Kevin: I think the translation of the tally function is messed up in 2.50 BCX 2.50 extern int tally (char *szLine, char *szChar) { int iCount = 0; while...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 1, 2001 10:53 pm
Thanks ... I found and fixed that already and will be available in 2.51....
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lo janus
me@...
Sep 2, 2001 4:23 pm
i cant find the free c from borland do you know were it is thanks lo ... From: <jeffnope@...> To: <BCX@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001...
Hello everyone, Can anyone tell me how you can execute a program in bcx, but wait until that program is finished before continuting? I've tried the shell...
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Pavel Minayev
evilone666@...
Sep 3, 2001 3:15 pm
... I wonder if system() function could help you. Not sure, but you could test it: system("PAUSE")...
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shaun@...
Sep 3, 2001 4:20 pm
... Please ignore the above. I found that a) shell does work the way I wanted it to, and b) i can also use spawnl. Many Thanks Shaun...
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Doyle Whisenant
mechanic@...
Sep 3, 2001 4:23 pm
... Take a look at "CreatProcess" in the API's. I have a function in EZwin that does what you want. I'll explain the lines and maybe someone will translate it...
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Vic McClung
vicmcclung@...
Sep 3, 2001 9:22 pm
Here ya' go Doyle: Thanks! '************************ Shell and Wait routine *************************** ShellAndWait("notepad.exe") ? "Finished!" Sub...
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Doyle Whisenant
mechanic@...
Sep 3, 2001 10:59 pm
... Thanks Vic, I was busy with other things or I would have finished it. I'll file this one away with my other functions. -- Doyle Whisenant ...
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Robert Wishlaw
rwishlaw@...
Sep 3, 2001 11:00 pm
Vic: from http://www.global-shared.com/api/exec/execwait.html Don't forget CloseHandle! The process object has an internal reference counter. There are/were at...
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wwoehr@...
Sep 4, 2001 9:19 am
Hi there, Some weeks ago I wrote a small BCX prog to start three different programs. Because they needed their native root directory the CreateProgress...
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Doyle Whisenant
mechanic@...
Sep 4, 2001 10:33 am
... Thanks Vic, Robert and wwoehr for the code snips. I didn't know about the closehandle thing. I'll add that to my examples. Thanks! -- Doyle Whisenant ...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 4, 2001 10:58 am
I've updated the translator to 2.51. Download it from: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BCX/files/BCX%20Files/Bc.Exe Key points: REM has been removed from the...
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pkelly@...
Sep 4, 2001 11:46 am
... Are you kidding?! What the **** did you do to BCX?!! What used to translate in almost 40 seconds, BCX 2.51 translates in 2 seconds! This is too good to be...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 4, 2001 2:32 pm
... magic! ... 2 ... I can slow it down if you want :-)...
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jeffnope@...
Sep 4, 2001 3:45 pm
Kevin, I bet you got rid of the temp file business, huh? Is the plan still to make BCX open source, and if so when? Thanks, Jeff ... in...
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Mark Stang
stangm@...
Sep 4, 2001 4:43 pm
... I have a newbie question about this. When you "self translate" how does that work exactly? FOr example. You make the code changes to create build 2.51....
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 4, 2001 4:47 pm
... Nope -- just honed some of my algo's The newest batch of BCX source is forthcoming. Stay tuned ......
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jeffnope@...
Sep 4, 2001 5:44 pm
I would think the reverse is true, If it can self translate then the odds of it having a bug are less, because the BCX source is a big chunk to translate. ...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 4, 2001 7:32 pm
... Exactly! ... Not if one is careful and thoughtful in one's changes. Also, that is why, before I release anything, I translate all 200 or so...
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cino hilliard
hillcino368@...
Sep 4, 2001 8:30 pm
Kevin, bcx Group I have been using your bcx for 3 or 4 of months now and am amazed at the power you have given me to program the stuff I like. I have picked up...
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David Anderson
danderson@...
Sep 4, 2001 9:04 pm
Kevin, What was the advantage in removing REM? A very BASIC bit of syntax, it could confuse a new user to BCX when REM dos'nt work! Still love BCX! Cheers...
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jeffnope@...
Sep 4, 2001 10:07 pm
"My idea is derived from a previous post on converting hex to decimal or decimal to hex. Having nothing better to do, I wrote a bcx routine Base2Base for base2...
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jeffnope@...
Sep 4, 2001 11:15 pm
FFT in Basic I found one, an online book with basic source in it! http://www.dspguide.com/ch12.htm Very cool stuff....
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 5, 2001 12:52 am
... A significant speed advantage, believe it or not. By only having to test for the apostrophe character, I have to only test for a single character, not 4...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 5, 2001 1:02 am
Cino, Thanks for the nice words. I'm glad you and others enjoy BCX. Regarding a C to BASIC translator, I seriously doubt that is even possible. The exception...
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jeffnope@...
Sep 5, 2001 1:48 am
Just a thought, One could make a command line option (+rem or something) to turn on the REM compatibility, but by default it's off and thus faster. Jeff ... ...
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pkelly@...
Sep 5, 2001 2:55 am
... If you compile with the -g4 option, your program will display a message box showing the function name, file name and line number when your prog crashes....