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system: You are John Fritz, 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 "MBF vs TYPE...END TYPE pr".

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assistant: From: John Fritz <jfutures@concentric.net>
Subject: MBF vs TYPE...END TYPE problems
I still compile QuickBasic (4.0) using /MBF to continue to use my old
data files. I would like to set up a random access file where each
record has about 6,000 elements, so that I can GET a record and quickly
get the 6,000 elements in that record in an array, but I get an:
		OUT OF STRING SPACE error
when I run the compiled program, because I have to dimension a set of
string variables, say, I=6,000:DIM G$(I) for my FIELD definition setup.
I have PLENTY of FREE MEMORY.
Can someone tell me how to set aside more string space (more than 64 K)
in the program?
	The other solution is for me to convert my data files and use:
		TYPE...END TYPE,
but I don't see how to set up a record with 6,000 elements, since I seem
to be forced to EXPLICITLY define each element (for me, 6,000 of them)
in the TYPE...END TYPE setup.
	Am I missing something here?
	Someone in the comp.lang.basic.misc newsgroup suggested I use BINARY
files, but I have timed the two and using RANDOM access files with 3,000
elements (which I can do) and getting one record and reading the 3,000
elements into an array is about 12 times faster that 3,000 gets from a
BINARY file. Speed is VERY important to me.
Thanks for any help.
John Fritz
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assistant: From: "Peter Arbeiter" <P-Arbeiter@online-club.de>
Subject: Interrupt Programmierung mit Powerbasic
Hallo !
wer kann mir Helfen ?
Ich brauche eine Routine die den Timer Baustein 8254 beliebig umstellt
von 0.005 ms bis 55ms.
desweiteren muss ein Interrupt auf eine Powerbasic Rotine umgebogen werden
wer kann mir Helfen ?
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: Graphics primitives a".

They wrote:
>Does any one have any canned powerbasic inline asm routines for drawing
>circles and or lines in mode 13h.Hell,any kind of inline asm routines for
>mode 13h are cool if you want to share.If they are your own could you please
>comment them.I want to learn from them and tweek them if possible.

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assistant: From: pb@excelsior.xs4all.nl.REMOVE-THIS (Marc van den Dikkenberg)
Subject: Re: Graphics primitives and inline asm sources.
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 06:02:23 -0500, Krogg <krogg.no.to.spam@inspace.net>
wrote:
Yes, these are freely available to everyone.
On my homepage you can download XGRAF, which basically is a full set of
sources for graphic operations in mode 13h, all in inline ASM. Just what
you're looking for, apparently. :-)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~excel/pb.html
http://come.to/pbdos
Hopefully it won't be much longer for me to complete my VESA-thingey...
--
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: MBF vs TYPE...END TYP".

They wrote:
>I still compile QuickBasic (4.0) using /MBF to continue to use my old
>data files. I would like to set up a random access file where each
>record has about 6,000 elements, so that I can GET a record and quickly
>get the 6,000 elements in that record in an array, but I get an:
>when I run the compiled program, because I have to dimension a set of
>string variables, say, I=6,000:DIM G$(I) for my FIELD definition setup.
>I have PLENTY of FREE MEMORY.
>Can someone tell me how to set aside more string space (more than 64 K)
>in the program?
>	The other solution is for me to convert my data files and use:
>but I don't see how to set up a record with 6,000 elements, since I seem
>to be forced to EXPLICITLY define each element (for me, 6,000 of them)
>in the TYPE...END TYPE setup.
>	Am I missing something here?
>	Someone in the comp.lang.basic.misc newsgroup suggested I use BINARY
>files, but I have timed the two and using RANDOM access files with 3,000
>elements (which I can do) and getting one record and reading the 3,000
>elements into an array is about 12 times faster that 3,000 gets from a
>BINARY file. Speed is VERY important to me.
>Thanks for any help.
>John Fritz

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assistant: From: Tech@SoftByteLabs.com
Subject: Re: MBF vs TYPE...END TYPE problems
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:33:30 -0500, John Fritz
<jfutures@concentric.net> wrote:
		OUT OF STRING SPACE error
		TYPE...END TYPE,
What is the total size of a single record?
Using the TYPE/END TYPE will not solve this because you still have to
dim an array of that type.  But you can always create half of the
array at the module level, then create the other half in a SUB and
make it SHARED to be accessible to the other subs as well. This works
good because both array doesn't share the same data segment, thus
allowing you to have more large arrays.  If all you need are 2 arrays
to get a single record, then it'll be fast using 2 gets.
Basically, make an array as COMMON and then make one SHARED
in a sub. This it'll work.
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They wrote:
>SHL can only use 1 or CL

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assistant: From: cornel@40th.com (Cornel Huth)
Subject: Re: pb3.5:asm shl  di,6   why dont it werk?
Tech@SoftByteLabs.com? (Tech@SoftByteLabs.com?) wrote (Tue, 31 Mar 1998
17:54:21 GMT):
Maybe in the compiler, but since 1984 and the '286 PC shl x,imm imm=1 to 31
has been allowed.  1984 -- only about 14 years ago.
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: pb3.5:asm shl  di,6".

They wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:12:38 -0500, Krogg
> <krogg.no.to.spam@inspace.net> wrote:
>
> >I was testing(for speed) some inline asm code for plotting points to mode
> >13h in powerbasic 3.5 and ran in to an error trying the following:
> >asm     mov     ax,&ha000
> >asm     mov     es,ax
> >asm     mov     bx,y%
> >asm     mov     di,bx
> >asm     xchg    bh,bl
>
> >asm     shl     di,6     <------------this line gives error
>
> Change it to this...
>
> asm     mov     cl, 6
> asm     shl     di, cl
>
> SHL can only use 1 or CL
>
> >asm     add     di,bx
> >asm     add     di,x%
> >asm     mov     al, col?
> >asm     mov     [es:di],al
> >this is what i get  "Error 497: Assembler syntax error"
> >I dunno why it wont work.
> >I really wanted to test this code because it uses the shl instead of a
> >mul,the shl is supposed to be faster.Can anyone shed some light on this
> >me?
> >
> >

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assistant: From: Krogg <krogg.no.to.spam@inspace.net>
Subject: Re: pb3.5:asm shl  di,6   why dont it werk?
Tech@SoftByteLabs.com wrote:
or
Thanks,I have allready changed that part,but now i am getting this
asm     mov     [es:di],al <---------must be an integer
what can i change for this part?
I am wondering if the original i snipped this from even worked,I've seen
the exe run from the original but,who knows.
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: pb3.5:asm shl  di,6".

They wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:12:38 -0500, Krogg
> <krogg.no.to.spam@inspace.net> wrote:
>
> >I was testing(for speed) some inline asm code for plotting points to mode
> >13h in powerbasic 3.5 and ran in to an error trying the following:
> >asm     mov     ax,&ha000
> >asm     mov     es,ax
> >asm     mov     bx,y%
> >asm     mov     di,bx
> >asm     xchg    bh,bl
>
> >asm     shl     di,6     <------------this line gives error
>
> Change it to this...
>
> asm     mov     cl, 6
> asm     shl     di, cl
>
> SHL can only use 1 or CL
>
> >asm     add     di,bx
> >asm     add     di,x%
> >asm     mov     al, col?
> >asm     mov     [es:di],al
> >this is what i get  "Error 497: Assembler syntax error"
> >I dunno why it wont work.
> >I really wanted to test this code because it uses the shl instead of a
> >mul,the shl is supposed to be faster.Can anyone shed some light on this
> >me?
> >
> >

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assistant: From: Krogg <krogg.no.to.spam@inspace.net>
Subject: Re: pb3.5:asm shl  di,6   why dont it werk?
Tech@SoftByteLabs.com wrote:
or
I dont see my reply come up yet but as to
mov [es:di],al   <-------needed to be an integer
i changed it to
stosb
the sad thing is that the rouitine is slower than the one using muls
maybe the stosb op is slower than the mov one?
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: Graphics primitives a".

They wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 06:02:23 -0500, Krogg <krogg.no.to.spam@inspace.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Does any one have any canned powerbasic inline asm routines for drawing
> >circles and or lines in mode 13h.Hell,any kind of inline asm routines for
> >mode 13h are cool if you want to share.If they are your own could you
> >comment them.I want to learn from them and tweek them if possible.
>
> Yes, these are freely available to everyone.
> On my homepage you can download XGRAF, which basically is a full set of
> sources for graphic operations in mode 13h, all in inline ASM. Just what
> you're looking for, apparently. :-)
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~excel/pb.html
> http://come.to/pbdos
>
> Hopefully it won't be much longer for me to complete my VESA-thingey...
> --
> Marc van den Dikkenberg
> -----------------------
> The PowerBasic Archives
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~excel/pb.html

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assistant: From: Krogg <krogg.no.to.spam@inspace.net>
Subject: Re: Graphics primitives and inline asm sources.
Marc van den Dikkenberg wrote:
please
Yes,I have xgraf,i have learned a lot from it.But,what i am looking for is
full asm code for circles and lines.I have some for  buffer copying and
buffer clearing that are FAST,I like the pixel put code in xgraph but i am
exploring a version that uses shl instead of muls as  its supposed to be
faster.I have tweeked some of the source in xgraph to work with the buffer
and page flipping code that i have but i am looking for better.I am trying to
learn enough to write my own asm but still any canned stuff will be a help.
Oh yeah,thanks i downloaded the xgraf101.zip.I dont know what the bug was yet
though.
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assistant: From: Peter Arbeiter <P-Arbeiter@online-club.de>
Subject: Interrupt need Help
Hallo!
who can help me?
I need a routine which readjusts the timer element 8254 as desired
of 0.005 msec to 55ms.
furthermore, an interrupt must be bent to a Powerbasic routine
who can help me?
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assistant: From: "Terry Brown" <Terry@Fleetwing.demon.co.uk>
Subject: DXF files
Hi,
     has anyone tackled decoding DXF files in this newsgroup?
If so, any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Language Used:- PB3.5
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: !!!HELP!!!! --PRINT P".

They wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:47:19 -0800, "Armand A. Medeiros"
><zarmand@concentric.net> wrote:
>
>>The following code sends TWO (2) CRLF strings to my file and I don't
>>know why:
>>CRLF$ = CHR$(13,10)
>>.
>It shouldn't. And with my PB 3.2 it doesn't either.
>Are you shure that PB actually outputs 2 CRLF's ?
>My guess is: your printer gets confused. Ususally you can instruct a
>printer how to handle chr 10 and 13  (expand or filter it).
>Try again defining CRLF$=CHR$(10,13). That may help.
>
>>.
>>PRINT #1, "TEST";
>>PRINT #1, CRLF$;
>>
>>However, the following code works properly:
>>
>>PRINT #1, "TEST"
>
>Regards,
>Gerard Bok

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assistant: From: "Terry Brown" <Terry@Fleetwing.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: !!!HELP!!!! --PRINT PROBLEM--
Gerard Bok wrote in message <35129833.14501531@news.nl.net>...
Hi Armand, Gerard, and all,
    YES it will do !
To show you why do this:-
PRINT "HERE IS A LINE OF TEXT WITH A CRLF"
PRINT "HERE IS A LINE OF TEXT WITHOUT CRLF";
It's the magic   ;   {semi colon} on the end that suppresses the CRLF
The PRINT#1,"TEST" will add the crlf
PRINT#1,"TEST";       won't
Hope that helps.....
By the way a  , (coma) indents the next item by a TAB space { or there
abouts } handy for formatting text.
BFN
Terry
MD
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assistant: From: Krister Olsson <Krister.Olsson@vok.lth.se>
Subject: PBDLL ver 5 and BMP and WMF files
I am supposed to write a DLL that has routines which give the same
results as:
Get_Picture	 (char*		KEY
		 HBITMAP	Bitmap)
and
Get_WMF		(char*		KEY
		HMETAFILE	hMF)
How do I solve the problem with HBITMAP and HMETAFILE in PBDLL ver 5.0?
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: pb3.5:asm shl  di,6".

They wrote:
>
>Tech@SoftByteLabs.com? (Tech@SoftByteLabs.com?) wrote (Tue, 31 Mar 1998
>>SHL can only use 1 or CL
>
>Maybe in the compiler, but since 1984 and the '286 PC shl x,imm imm=1 to 31
>has been allowed.  1984 -- only about 14 years ago.

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Subject: Re: pb3.5:asm shl  di,6   why dont it werk?
On 1 Apr 1998 05:13:25 GMT, cornel@40th.com (Cornel Huth) wrote:
17:54:21 GMT):
Yes, you're right, I should of been more specific. the compiler seems
to ignore it so I suggested a quick fix.
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assistant: From: thrash@interlog.com (Derek Mcdonald)
Subject: POWERBASIC SOFTWARE
There is a company called DMCS Technologies and they have developed some
very good communications software (including a BBS) all in PB3.2 code. It
may be the last one they make in PB as they are in the process of
converting it into a different compiler (still BASIC I believe but a
different brand). Check out the software at:
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assistant: From: dmalitz@mindspring.com (David Malitz)
Subject: Passing parameters to/from C++
I have a 16-bit powerbasic DLL that works fine with VB.  Now I need to
make it callable from C++, if possible.  I have several different
types of parameters: a string, a string array, and a single-precision
array.  What changes do I need to make so this will work with C++?  Is
there a FAQ or something somewhere that talks about this?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Stepwise Systems, Inc.
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: POWERBASIC SOFTWARE".

They wrote:
>
> There is a company called DMCS Technologies and they have developed some
> very good communications software (including a BBS) all in PB3.2 code. It
> may be the last one they make in PB as they are in the process of
> converting it into a different compiler (still BASIC I believe but a
> different brand). Check out the software at:
> http://www.interlog.com/~thrash/dmcs.html

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assistant: From: Bob Zale <bob@powerbasic.com>
Subject: Re: POWERBASIC SOFTWARE
Derek Mcdonald wrote:
Derek, Derek, Derek...
I'm surprised you would do such a thing.  You are welcome to post
messages here in the PowerBASIC News Group.  Everyone is welcome here.
But please post only honest messages.  DMCS is your company.  Yet you
post a "Puffy" message about DMCS as though you were simply an unbiased,
disinterested third-party.  In the future, please try to restrain
yourself.
Robert Zale
PowerBASIC Inc.
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assistant: From: Bob Zale <bob@powerbasic.com>
Subject: Periods within identifier names
Windows Programmers -- Please note...
Historically, it's always been acceptable to use periods within
variable, label, and function names in BASIC code.  However, with the
advent of Types and Classes, this practice is both confusing and very
inefficient to compile. Even though PB/DLL documented this as illegal,
in reality we temporarily relaxed the rules to ease porting of DOS code.
However, all future versions of PowerBASIC for Windows will strictly
prohibit the practice. No periods will be allowed within identifier
names, except to delimit member names (such as with user defined types).
Keep this in mind now, so that future updates will transition smoothly.
Regards,
Bob Zale
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> Thanks,I have allready changed that part,but now i am getting this
> asm     mov     [es:di],al <---------must be an integer
> what can i change for this part?

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assistant: From: dave@powerbasic.com (Dave Navarro)
Subject: Re: pb3.5:asm shl  di,6   why dont it werk?
In article <3521AE41.D51CF489@inspace.net>, krogg.no.to.spam@inspace.net
says...
Try:
asm  mov byte ptr es:[di], al
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assistant: From: "Andy Smith" <asmith@skymag.co.uk>
Subject: OLE/DDE from PB or PBDLL
I need to use DDE or OLE from within (preferably) PB3.5 or PBDLL, but I
can't see how to create an object as its not a type that I can dim:
dim  wfax as object - doesn't work.
The documentation for the software that I'm trying to communicate with says
(in VB)-
dim wfax as object
set wfax = CreateObject("SMPLFAX")
etc.
etc.
Am I being thick?
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