Hello from Louisiana... I downloaded and experimented with Xbasic 6.3.7. I have several comments that may be useful. The xz compression is truly impressive,...
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Steve Gunhouse
sgunhouse
Jul 6, 2010 3:37 pm
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:01:10 -0400, marsekatts <marsekatts@...> ... We occasionally get hit by spammers. Not certain if Vic (the list owner) can change...
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bestonnet_00
Jul 7, 2010 2:05 am
I've found that the only thing that is truly effective at dealing with spammers is to moderate all messages from new members (then switch them to unmoderated...
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bestonnet_00
Jul 7, 2010 2:45 am
... I used xz because this group is running a bit close to its file space limit and xz is about the best compression out there (and decompresses pretty quickly...
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cw2008can
Jul 7, 2010 6:39 pm
Thank you for your comments about XBasic. It is especially gratifying to see it referred to as a "...beautiful work of art." There is no shortage of ideas and...
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David Silverwood
the_watchmann
Jul 10, 2010 12:18 pm
(copy of a message I sent on the xblite forum) Hi I'm pretty new to xblite (or the use thereof anyway), having spent a lot of time on xbasic itself. Anyway,...
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Vincent Voois
vvacme
Jul 10, 2010 2:52 pm
pMYSQL, pstr host, pstr user, pstr passwd p stands for "pointer" which is plain translated as a memory-location to find the value pstr stands for pointer to...
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David Silverwood
the_watchmann
Jul 10, 2010 3:36 pm
Thanks Vince I knew I forgot sumthin... the & Thanks a lot ________________________________ From: Vincent Voois <vvoois@...> To: xbasic@yahoogroups.com ...
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se
sistemas_esp...
Jul 12, 2010 1:05 pm
In FirstBasic (PowerBasic) i use these lines with sucsses, and, the program ends when i touch one ke: DO A$ = "" A$ = INKEY$ LOOP UNTIL A$ <> "" But, in xBasic...
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Vincent Voois
vvacme
Jul 12, 2010 6:56 pm
The loop is not interrupted because INKEY$ is not an Xbasic Keyword. Xbasic simply considers INKEY$ as another variable and as it doesn't contain anything, A$...
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john wasson
jwwasson
Jul 13, 2010 7:34 pm
Hi,friend I find a good Chinese website which is www.komcuy1.com It sells electronic products. All of them are brand new and original and they all have cheap...
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bestonnet_00
Jul 14, 2010 10:12 am
I've adapted the GTK+ bindings from http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~armeanu/xlGTK/xlGTK.html to work with XBasic under Linux (as well as some of the examples). I...
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whd_whd_whd
Jul 15, 2010 11:05 am
What is the most current version of Xbasic, what is the official website, and where is it being developed and by whom? I've been looking for a good BASIC...
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vicdrastik
Jul 15, 2010 11:10 am
... Yes, that is how the system works. Once a new member has posted a valid message, I change their status to normal, which means they can post without...
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Vincent Voois
vvacme
Jul 15, 2010 12:05 pm
On Windows the underground release is somewhere around 6.2.6 whereas for Linux the version is 6.3.0 (in order to get XBasic runing on the newer Linux...
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bestonnet_00
Jul 15, 2010 1:37 pm
The official XBasic web site is http://www.xbasic.org/ which hasn't been updated pretty much forever (the Linux version also doesn't work on modern Linux...
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Andy Norfolk
gwasantir
Jul 15, 2010 6:31 pm
I'm just a dabbler in using XBasic. I just tried to install XBasic 6.3.6 and got an error message - NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction CS:0573...
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cw2008can
Jul 16, 2010 1:22 am
If the file you downloaded is xbasic-6.3.6-win32-20100406.zip, it is compressed folder of the files you need to "extract". Create a folder where you want to...
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Vincent Voois
vvacme
Jul 16, 2010 1:55 pm
The compiler and executables are quite old in their existence. You might try to apply "compatability" mode on the binaries. It should work on Windows XP but...
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xbasic@yahoogroups.com
Jul 20, 2010 4:28 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the xbasic group. File :...
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cw2008can
Jul 20, 2010 4:43 am
There is a new XBasic-6.3.9 load in Files > dist > xbasic-6.3.9-linux-src.gz It has two new functions XstInKey$() and XstWaitKey$() To get more information on...
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cw2008can
Jul 20, 2010 5:00 am
There is a new XBasic-6.3.9 load at Fies > dist > xbasic-6.3.9-linux-src.tar.gz which has XuiPushButton() modified so that it sets the values[] word 0 to 1...
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Kerry Miller
n0wiq
Jul 20, 2010 11:09 am
Hi CW2000can, I am quickly replacing may computers with Dual Core 64 bit machines. What do I hav to do to install XBasic-6.3.9 on my 64 bit machine and also...
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Steve Gunhouse
sgunhouse
Jul 20, 2010 1:06 pm
... In Windows - nothing. 32-bit programs are standard on Windows. In Linux, it varies ... some distros ship pure 64-bit versions, there is no 64-bit version...
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cw2008can
Jul 20, 2010 1:34 pm
I am Linux on an older 32 bit machine so I cannot fully test it. I put my changes on the XBasic-6.3.8 load. If XBasic-6.3.8 worked on your machine...
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bestonnet_00
Jul 20, 2010 1:35 pm
The INSTALL file which tells you what other stuff you need to install (or at least I needed to install when I tried it under a virtual machine) was left out of...
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cw2008can
Jul 20, 2010 3:24 pm
There is a newer XBasic-6.3.9 now with the INSTALL file included. The Makefile is also changed to automatically include it. CW...
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n0wiq
Jul 20, 2010 9:16 pm
Hi Group, When I tried yum install glibc-devel.i686 with my Fedora 11 X86_64 I got the error: couldn't find the package. -- Kerry N0WIQ My web site URL is: ...
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Kerry Miller
n0wiq
Jul 20, 2010 10:24 pm
hi Group, Running XBasix-6.3.9 installed on my Fedora 13 X86_64 system. The issue I find is a function of mine using XstGetFileAttributes is returning a 0 for...
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gedcda72
Jul 20, 2010 11:58 pm
Firstly ; regards Linux vs SCO legal hassle . Has that been completely resolved . Secondly ; RAM requirements for various O/S . What might you suggest for...
