... You have to make sure the directory is empty, or it won't delete. You might not be aware of this unless you check the error returned by XstDeleteFile. You...
Hi ETF: You are doing a lot of testing, and that is great. Yes, the directory has to be empty but that goes back to the days of DOS. DOS does not allow a...
Hey Hugh, ... It's a phase ... [:D] What you don't realize is I'm doing the same thing with VBScript. I deliberately did two languages at once, to keep ...
... The place where you need $$PathSlash$ is if you are trying to parse some path. When used as input to a command, XB accepts either. But if you actually try...
I started a thread 18 months ago about a "Strange statement in the html docs." I now believe most of the statements on that page refer to a previous version...
Thanks Steve. Sorry for the delay in replying, but I've only just got back to Xbasic after a long time off-line through pressure of other things. I was going...
... From: "etfan2121" <etfan2121@...> To: <xbasic@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:01 PM Subject: [xbasic] Operator Class ... I interpret...
... From: "etfan2121" <etfan2121@...> To: <xbasic@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 9:54 PM Subject: [xbasic] Nesting revisited I started a...
... like ... Well, it's hard to get that interpretation from this: "Subroutines are not recursive. They may not call themselves directly or indirectly. A...
Hi etfan, Please don't die, even out of joy! I voted for your submission in the "99 bottles of beer" site. I like it and now, I make it known by the www ;-) ...
Muchas gracias. Interesting thing is I'm about as close to a tea-totaler as you can get. Alcohol just doesn't do it for me. Like a lot of programmer types,...
I am having trouble to read and write information to a data file, and to diplay the information on screen. The data file has five fields. Thank you Paul...
On Sun, 13 May 2007 08:57:38 -0400, trainspot0 <paul.trainspot@...> ... Any other details? Is this file in text format or binary. Does it use fixed-width...
It's definitely possible to read and write information to a data file, and diplay the information on the screen. There are a thousand ways to mess up the...
You might want to read this stuff to help you out a bit: http://gnetools.sourceforge.net/xbsupport/viewpane_file_io.html This involves text as binary...
I have been asked to design a shop type program, where the user enters a number for the product code. There are about 20 products, which will need to increase...
Well, designing a database is not exactly peanuts. Not only do you need to let your program create tables to keep record data and pointers, you need to take...
... It can certainly be done. I wrote a program a couple of years ago that did almost exactly that, though the files it used came in Dbase III format with ...
To CR Before I know about XBasic, I had done it in QuickBasic, but due to memory, I could only have 10 items at most. It loaded a text data file that...
To handle a database with variable-length fields in XBasic ... depends on the format. If it's a text format like CSV you could use INFILE$ to read one line at...
This group is set up to help programmers with specific problems in using XBasic. It sounds more like you're trying to get someone to write the program for...
Snap! I did it in QuickBasic too, and I ran out of memory very fast - hence my comment! And I settled on Xbasic partly because I run Linux and my friend uses...
Yes, I was thinking something like that - each record as one line, separated by CR/LF, and each field maybe separated by commas. Not too hard to do, and a...
