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system: You are Aneke & Jerome, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Power Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Memory management and big".

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assistant: From: "Aneke & Jerome" <anje.monscavoir@hol.fr>
Subject: Memory management and big array in PowerBASIC or QuickBASIC : Help
How to create an array or a chain pointer list more over the 640 Ko or 1 Mo
DOS limit ?
How to create * very big array (dim more than 33000) ?
How to create pointer like in Pascal ?
In fact i want to create dynamic data list. I can not predict the number of
data i have to store (incoming from COM port and can not be store to disk)
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: Memory management and".

They wrote:
>How to create an array or a chain pointer list more over the 640 Ko or 1 Mo
>DOS limit ?
>How to create * very big array (dim more than 33000) ?
>How to create pointer like in Pascal ?
>In fact i want to create dynamic data list. I can not predict the number of
>data i have to store (incoming from COM port and can not be store to disk)

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assistant: From: pb@excelsior.xs4all.nl.REMOVE-THIS (Marc van den Dikkenberg)
Subject: Re: Memory management and big array in PowerBASIC or QuickBASIC :
Help
On Sat, 31 Jan 1998 19:09:59 +0100, "Aneke & Jerome"
<anje.monscavoir@hol.fr> wrote:
The recent versions of PB allow you to dimension an array as HUGE (using
base memory) or VIRTUAL (using EMS), allowing you to create large arrays.
(up to millions of handles, so 33000 is no problem)
If you use a VIRTUAL array, the data will be stored above the 1 MB DOS
limit. You have to load EMM386 for EMS, though.
Or...
Check out the ABC packets at http://www.xs4all.nl/~excel/pbabc.html
There are a lot of sources in there that will allow you to access EMS or
XMS memory from QuickBasic or PowerBasic.
(As well as over a thousand other sources)
PB 3.2+ has build in support of pointers.
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user: You are replying to All about "REDIM PRESERVE in PBv3.5".

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assistant: I hope someone can help me with a problem I'm having trying to
use the REDIM PRESERVE feature for dynamic arrays of strings and/or
long integers.
Seems that it causes my system to CRASH all the time.  Doesn't
seem to get along with dos or windows 95.
Equip = Tandy 4000...16mb memory...MR Bios 1.6
Im doing the following
========================================================================
defint a-z
dim dynamic num&(0)
read a file & index the lines of text
open file for input as file
  while not eof(file)
    num&(x) = seek(file)
    incr x
    redim preserve num&(x)
  wend
close file
=======================================================================
Cannot find any info on Redim Preserve in the Reference under
dim, redim, or preserve.                      ^^^^^^^^^
This works flawlessly in the other guy's BASIC 7.1
What am I doing wrong?  Is this a bug or what?...
Finally... Where's the PowerBASIC BBS?
Not all of us are nutty enough to go Net/Web or Compu$erve....
Thanks in advance....
... Who was that masked interrupt?
system: You are Marc Van Den Dikkenberg, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Power Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: memory questions".

They wrote:
>|> If I were to dimension a dynamic string array with each variable
>|> having a maximum (but not fixed) length of 12 (I'm thinking of 8.3
>|> filenames here), how would I be able to tell, before dimensioning the
>|> array, what the maximum number of elements is that I could fit into
>|> memory? (using PowerBasic 3.5)

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assistant: From: pb@excelsior.xs4all.nl.REMOVE-THIS (Marc van den Dikkenberg)
Subject: Re: memory questions
On 2 Feb 1998 18:54:09 GMT, brianm@ims.com (Brian McLaughlin) wrote:
I don't know where you plan to store your data...
If you want to use 'normal' arrays, you can check the available amount of
memory with FRE(-1). If your arrays contain a maximum of 12 characters,
you could dimension them as ASCIIZ.
In this case, you can reserver 12 bytes of memory for each line, but if it
only contains 8 (just an example) then LEN(a(10)) will return '10', too.
You can't store dynamic length strings in memory. but, if you're sure that
12 positions will be enough, use ASCIIZ. From your point of view, they
behave exactly the same.
FreeBase = FRE(-1)
' This will be the maximum # of bytes you can use in conventional memory
FreeEMS = FRE(-11)
' This will be the maximum # of bytes you can use in EMS.
You now know how much meory you can use, and hence how large you can
dimension you array. If you want to use as much memory for your array as
possible, you simple have to devide the outcome by 12, and enter the number
in the DIMensioning lines below.
DIM a(   <...>   ) AS ASCIIZ*12
DIM VIRTUAL a(   <...>   ) AS ASCIIZ*12
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system: You are Aneke & Jerome, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Power Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

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assistant: From: "Aneke & Jerome" <anje.monscavoir@hol.fr>
Subject: Dynamic memory allocation ... pointer ??
system: You are Aneke & Jerome, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Power Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

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assistant: From: "Aneke & Jerome" <anje.monscavoir@hol.fr>
Subject: Dynamic memory allocation : pointer ???
system: You are Markus Svilans, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Power Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Scalar and Planar variabl".

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assistant: From: bh447@freenet.carleton.ca (Markus Svilans)
Subject: Scalar and Planar variables -- what are they?
Hi,
Just one quick question:
I've noticed that sometimes when I forget to include an argument in a sub
or function in PowerBasic, it tells me something like "Planar integer
variable expected" or "Scalar integer variable expected", and I'm just
wondering what the difference between scalar and planar variables are, and
what they are.
Thanks.
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assistant: From: bh447@freenet.carleton.ca (Markus Svilans)
Subject: PB 3.5 and XMS
Everyone who has bought the latest PowerBasic:
Does pb3.5 support XMS (I know it supports EMS)?
Thanks.
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: PB 3.5 and XMS".

They wrote:
>Everyone who has bought the latest PowerBasic:
>
>Does pb3.5 support XMS (I know it supports EMS)?

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assistant: From: pb@excelsior.xs4all.nl.REMOVE-THIS (Marc van den Dikkenberg)
Subject: Re: PB 3.5 and XMS
On 3 Feb 1998 02:55:04 GMT, bh447@freenet.carleton.ca (Markus Svilans)
wrote:
No, it doesn't. (Just EMS.)
there are, however, free sources which will enable you to use XMS from
PowerBasic. You can find these (among others) in the ABC packets.
The Juli 1997 ABC packets features one of these.
You can download it at http://www.xs4all.nl/~excel/pbabc.html
Don't forget to download the ABC reader to extract the code!
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user: You are replying to All about "Zephyr Software's e-mail".

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assistant: From: ohgs@chatham.demon.co.uk (Oliver Sparrow)
Subject: Zephyr Software's e-mail
Could someone tell me how to contact Zephyr Software? Their SVGA library does
not compile
with PB3.5
______________________________________
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assistant: From: d83@ath.forthnet.gr (Don Schullian)
Subject: Re: Redim Preserve In Pbv3.5
On 3 Feb 1998 15:14:21 GMT, Paul Smith <Paul.Smith@concentric.net> wrote:
_This_ works on my 'puter, under wintrash....
defint a-z
dim dynamic num&(0)
open file for input as file
  while not eof(file)
    line input #1, l$
    incr x
    redim preserve num&(x)
    num&(x) = seek(file)
  wend
close file
  ____    _    ____      ____  _____
 |  _ \  / \  / ___) __ | ___)(_   _)
 | |_)  / _ \ \____\/  \|  _)   | |
 |____//_/ \_\(____/\__/|_|     |_|
    Reply to: d83@ath.forthnet.gr
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: Zephyr Software's e-m".

They wrote:
>
>Could someone tell me how to contact Zephyr Software? Their SVGA library
>with PB3.5

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assistant: From: pb@excelsior.xs4all.nl.REMOVE-THIS (Marc van den Dikkenberg)
Subject: Re: Zephyr Software's e-mail
On Wed, 04 Feb 1998 08:25:05 GMT, ohgs@chatham.demon.co.uk (Oliver Sparrow)
wrote:
does not compile
They've got a website: http://www.zephyrsoftware.com
You can download a PB 3.5 version there.
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system: You are Lance Edmonds, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Power Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: Redim Preserve In Pbv".

They wrote:
> Finally... Where's the PowerBASIC BBS?
> Not all of us are nutty enough to go Net/Web or Compu$erve....
> Thanks in advance....

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assistant: From: Lance Edmonds <lanceedmonds@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Redim Preserve In Pbv3.5
Read the README.TXT file installed with PB, and see the section on
Contacting PB Inc.
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 Email contacts:
 100354.1645@compuserve.com
 Lance_Edmonds@compuserve.com
 lanceedmonds@xtra.co.nz
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assistant: From: niagramike@aol.com (NiagraMike)
Subject: PowerBasic TSR's
I downloaded a trial version of PowerBasic and I am trying to figure out how
to
make TSR's with it.Can anybody help me?
-Mike
Mike_Falls@juno.com
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: Zephyr Software's e-m".

They wrote:
>
>Could someone tell me how to contact Zephyr Software? Their SVGA library
>with PB3.5

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assistant: From: jfoy@muq.org (Jeff Foy)
Subject: Re: Zephyr Software's e-mail
In article <34d825aa.3072156@news.demon.co.uk>,
ohgs@chatham.demon.co.uk (Oliver Sparrow) wrote:
does not compile
Couldn't get there via http://www.zephyrsoftware.com ?
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: PowerBasic TSR's".

They wrote:
>I downloaded a trial version of PowerBasic and I am trying to figure out
>make TSR's with it.Can anybody help me?
>
>-Mike
>Mike_Falls@juno.com

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assistant: From: "Aneke & Jerome" <anje.monscavoir@hol.fr>
Subject: Re: PowerBasic TSR's
look online help about POPUP word, you will see explanation ...
NiagraMike a *crit dans le message
<19980204202201.PAA04581@ladder02.news.aol.com>...
how to
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assistant: From: chester@cabk.demon.co.uk (Chester Kemp)
Subject: Help! for a QB to PB conversion - Makegif.zip (0/1)
I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to convert a QuickBasic program
into PowerBASIC.   I have done various changes as recommended and the
program compiles - however, when it runs it hangs up the computer!!
The program is MAKEGIF which is in the ABC library - I have attached a
ZIPped copy for convenience.  The problem appears to be addressing the
screen.  I have parallel ran the program but start getting
discrepancies on values at that point (from around QB's use of the
SADD function).
I have done the things mentioned in the PB manual involving SHARED,
CONS. Have set OPTION BINARY BASE 1.  The SADD function appears to be
equivalent of VARPTR.
The QB original uses SCREEN 13 for its example - its a simple
amendment to make it SCREEN 12 and I've tested the change in QB OK.
Can anyone out there help me???
Chester Kemp
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assistant: From: chester@cabk.demon.co.uk (Chester Kemp)
Subject: Re: Help! for a QB to PB conversion - Makegif.zip (0/1)
Further to my posting:
1	the replacement for QB's SADD function was meant to read
STRPTR (not VARPTR)
2	If you want a copy of my PB-amended BAS file which
successfully compiles - let me know?
3	Is this a challenge too far for PowerBASIC experts???
	(surely someone wants a program to translate their screen
image into an Internet compliant form (ie not PCX or BMP)
Regards
Chester Kemp
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: Help! for a QB to PB".

They wrote:
>Further to my posting:
>
>1	the replacement for QB's SADD function was meant to read
>STRPTR (not VARPTR)
>
>2	If you want a copy of my PB-amended BAS file which
>successfully compiles - let me know?
>
>3	Is this a challenge too far for PowerBASIC experts???
>	(surely someone wants a program to translate their screen
>image into an Internet compliant form (ie not PCX or BMP)

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assistant: From: pb@excelsior.xs4all.nl.REMOVE-THIS (Marc van den Dikkenberg)
Subject: Re: Help! for a QB to PB conversion - Makegif.zip (0/1)
On Fri, 06 Feb 1998 18:21:20 GMT, chester@cabk.demon.co.uk (Chester Kemp)
wrote:
Are you insinuating that you've already got PCX and/or BMP writing routines
for PB? If so, I would really appreaciate a copy... ;->
Anyway, I've tried to change this to PB as well, and didn't manage to
succeed so far. The PB version goes way beyond the end of the image,
probably because some of the internal hashing gets screwed up somewhere.
LZW encoding doesn't exactly stand out for it clarity, though - I have no
idea what's the problem.
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: memory questions".

They wrote:
>|> So a new string segment would take away another 32k (or whatever
>|> $STRING is set to) of free memory from the far heap, or however much
>|> free memory is left if it's less than 32k?
>
>Yes. But, if the amount of free memory is less than the string segment
>size, I *think* you get a run time error. Not certain on that one.

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assistant: From: dnskiesling@telis.org (David Kiesling)
Subject: Re: memory questions
I think it might allow for it. One use of the FRE function returns the
number of bytes that can be allocated as a single string, up to the
current string segment size, and if only 16000 bytes of memory are
available, it will return 16000.
Okay, everything you've said makes sense to me now. Thanks for the
help. I feel more confident now. :)
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: Help! for a QB to PB".

They wrote:
>Are you insinuating that you've already got PCX and/or BMP writing routines
>for PB? If so, I would really appreaciate a copy... ;->
>Anyway, I've tried to change this to PB as well, and didn't manage to
>succeed so far. The PB version goes way beyond the end of the image,
>probably because some of the internal hashing gets screwed up somewhere.
>LZW encoding doesn't exactly stand out for it clarity, though - I have no
>idea what's the problem.

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assistant: From: chester@cabk.demon.co.uk (Chester Kemp)
Subject: Re: Help! for a QB to PB conversion - Makegif.zip (0/1)
On Fri, 06 Feb 1998 23:18:41 GMT, pb@excelsior.xs4all.nl.REMOVE-THIS
(Marc van den Dikkenberg) wrote:
Sorry the best I can do is to draw from the ABC library and they are
both in QuickBasic:
	SAVEPCX and BASICBMP
Neither seem totally adequate but they may give you some ideas!
I have been contemplating a Danish commercial program called PCXDUMP
which appears to give a simple link to a Pascal program.  For my own
problem I would then have to run a compact  utility (19k) called
CVTGIF.
This though is a VERY long-winded solution.  With QB at least having
something to offer , I wonder why PB Inc isn't proving the superiority
of their product by offerng a solution!  (I know they're busy - but it
would be nice).
Thanks for responding anyway - I was beginning to think no-one cared!!
Regards
Chester Kemp
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assistant: From: rokremer@pi.net (Rene Kremer)
Subject: Two nice utilities for PowerBasic
Two nice utilities for PowerBasic
=================================
PBLM 	PowerBasic Library Manager (version 3.50)
     	- Runs with PBLIB v3.20 and v3.50
      	- Manage PBL-files for PB v3.2 or v3.5
      	- Extract modules from all versions
PBA  	PowerBasic Analist (PBA), version 2.00
     	This TSR allows fast & easy find the SUB's
     	and FUNCTION's in your basic source code
     	and include files.
See: http://www.xs4all.nl/~tkremer/pblm
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assistant: From: chester@cabk.demon.co.uk (Chester Kemp)
Subject: Win 95 / DOS differences in QB to PB conversion
GOOD NEWS   &   BAD NEWS
Re my previous posting regarding MAKEGIF conversion from QB to PB.
My converted program actually works in DOS/exclusive  Mode
BUT
 it hangs the computer in Windows 95.
Any thoughts about Win95 differences???
Chester Kemp
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: Help! for a QB to PB".

They wrote:
>Are you insinuating that you've already got PCX and/or BMP writing routines
>for PB? If so, I would really appreaciate a copy... ;->

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assistant: From: bart.mediamind@tornado.be (Bart Lateur)
Subject: Re: Help! for a QB to PB conversion - Makegif.zip (0/1)
pb@excelsior.xs4all.nl.REMOVE-THIS (Marc van den Dikkenberg) wrote:
BMP is basically pretty easy to do, as long as you don't need RLE.
I haven't got any PB code to do it, but I think I can produce it quite
easily. Provided you give me some clue on what you want it to do. ;-)
For BMP, check out the Windows help file "DIBs and their uses",
DIBS2.HLP, available from MS as DIBS2.EXE. I most definitely recommend
it; the archive is only 36k. Actually, a BMP file IS a DIB (Device
Independent Bitmap), plus an extra intro field.
 Also, there's good (C) source code in the JPEG source code from the
Independent JPEG Group (it can handle lot's of formats, including GIF,
and maybe, just maybe, PCX too). It might be worth a look, as it shows
how to tackle this in a device-independent way. IT's big though, the
archive is over 600k.
As for converting to GIF: there was some freeware Windows prgram (tiny
really), that convert BMP  to GIF. The name is, very appropriately,
BMP2GIF.
p.s. For any personal replies (this was posted as well), you may just as
well use Dutch.
	Bart.
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