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17765
Looks like that could be correct Steve. I'm then left with why an xst load string array from a file works on windows and not on linux. Having said that though...
a.johnw
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Feb 1, 2008
3:38 pm
17766
I've just had fun with \ generating a very precise error message telling the user exactly what to do. I had inconsistent behavior too. Use CHR$(n) where n is...
a.johnw
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Feb 1, 2008
3:49 pm
17767
... Does the filename actually have that space in it? While you can have embedded spaces in Linux, they are somewhat more problematic than in Windows ... -- ...
Steve Gunhouse
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Feb 1, 2008
7:35 pm
17768
\x5C though that probably feels circular ... CHR$(92) ... -- Steve Gunhouse...
Steve Gunhouse
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Feb 1, 2008
7:38 pm
17769
... No Steve there is nothing silly like that. I've actually wondered if xbasic xst's can return before they complete - but surely not. John...
a.johnw
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Feb 1, 2008
8:03 pm
17770
... XBasic is not multi-threaded. Naturally if an error occurs then a function won't complete, so I suppose you might technically call that "returning before...
Steve Gunhouse
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Feb 1, 2008
8:19 pm
17771
This was refered to in passing the other day and I was checking it out. FUNCTION Entry () ' file$ ="C:\Documents and Settings\Burbank\My Documents\Comics\DC ...
Dean Sweatman
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Feb 3, 2008
6:01 am
17772
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:01:52 -0500, Dean Sweatman <burbank396@...> ... Use a valid filename. ... -- Steve Gunhouse...
Steve Gunhouse
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Feb 3, 2008
6:31 am
17773
... Look at the following string to find your error: PRINT "[t] [\\] [\t] [\\t]" Output is: [t] [\] [ ] [\t] Vic...
Vic Drastik
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Feb 3, 2008
7:51 am
17774
Washing egg off of face mode on <g> Thankyou I didn't think of the Backslash/doubleBackslash effect. I should have seen it myself. ... it ... filename$,...
Dean Sweatman
burbank396
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Feb 3, 2008
8:18 am
17775
Found this message in the archives. I am a bit (A LOT) unclear as to how this FOR i = 0 TO upper ' 'get filenames fn$[i] = fi[i].name ' part works. It does...
Dean Sweatman
burbank396
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Feb 3, 2008
5:29 pm
17776
... works on ... windows ... array ... linux. ... path to ... later ... that case ... fault. The ... invalid array ... parsed out ... xbasic). ... it up. ... ...
a.johnw
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Feb 3, 2008
8:37 pm
17777
OK I fiddled about with David's program a bit used maxLen to format the output and added a bit of code to save the output to a disk file. I like the way he...
Dean Sweatman
burbank396
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Feb 3, 2008
10:33 pm
17778
Hi Peter. Did you have any luck indirectly calling your send and receive functions in your main program from your DLL's? If not, I could add to that last...
chucky77112
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Feb 4, 2008
12:08 am
17779
Well, I tried doing what I described, with the Polling() function and all that - it didn't work because the program flow doesn't seem to make it back to the...
chucky77112
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Feb 4, 2008
1:31 am
17780
Well this results in the date of January 1 1601 FOR x = 0 TO upper ifile$= file$[x] : a = LEN(ifile$) ifile = OPEN (ifile$, $$RD) bytes = LOF (ifile) : bytes$...
Dean Sweatman
burbank396
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Feb 4, 2008
8:42 pm
17781
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:42:31 -0500, Dean Sweatman <burbank396@...> ... Since you haven't read any value into fileTime$$, what would you expect it to say?...
Steve Gunhouse
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Feb 4, 2008
8:50 pm
17782
So I need to run XstGetFilesAndAttributes to load up the fileinfo array? Looking at display variables showed actual valve rather than the "0"s that I expected...
Dean Sweatman
burbank396
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Feb 4, 2008
10:12 pm
17783
and filling the variable thusly fileTime$$ = GMAKE (fi[i].modifyTimeHigh, fi[i].modifyTimeLow) ... @day,@weekday, ... +...
Dean Sweatman
burbank396
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Feb 4, 2008
10:31 pm
17784
Exactly. Presumably you ran XstGetFilesAndAttributes elsewhere, but didn't assign anything to fileTime$$. Though I also note that your loop variable here is x,...
Steve Gunhouse
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Feb 5, 2008
12:15 am
17785
Since we are able to access the filesize from an opened file I thought that other attributes (like the date time stamp might also be available. So far using...
Dean Sweatman
burbank396
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Feb 5, 2008
1:27 am
17786
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:27:35 -0500, Dean Sweatman <burbank396@...> ... Not familiar with user-defined types huh? Look in the header files for Xst (that...
Steve Gunhouse
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Feb 5, 2008
2:12 am
17787
... didn't ... variable ... well ... ... I learned(??) basic on a Timex Sinclair 1000 then moved into an Atari 8- bit ... for some reason the books and...
Dean Sweatman
burbank396
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Feb 5, 2008
4:49 am
17788
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:48:57 -0500, Dean Sweatman <burbank396@...> ... Nothing wrong with x, though i, j and n are probably more common. Sinclair BASIC...
Steve Gunhouse
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Feb 5, 2008
1:26 pm
17789
Before I go off to explore the XstGetFiles and Attributes universe I thought that I'd clean up the XstFindFiles modifications. As always watch out for...
Dean Sweatman
burbank396
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Feb 5, 2008
8:56 pm
17790
I sent the last update to XstFindFiles to the list for comment. I won't say it is finished (is there ever a finished program??<g>) Over all it does the job I...
Dean Sweatman
burbank396
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Feb 5, 2008
9:28 pm
17791
Won't work because the default type on operations matches the largest operand. Old versions of BASIC did everything as decimals. Since both i and 1000 are...
Steve Gunhouse
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Feb 5, 2008
9:46 pm
17792
Steven beat me to it, but here is how to do the progress report simply: IFZ i & 0b1111111111 THEN PRINT i...
Vic Drastik
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Feb 5, 2008
10:09 pm
17793
Thank you (in order of initial reply) Chucky77112 and Vincent. Chucky77112, Thanks for your experimentation on my behalf, and for the updated example. I tried...
gungadout
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Feb 6, 2008
1:17 am
17794
OK it works ... now for the pablum crowd (me, myself and I) in nursery school english<g> please. I think we have IFZ meaning IF i meets the condition of i AND...
Dean Sweatman
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Feb 6, 2008
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