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? You're library charges you to take books out? :?: Like I said, No Money any way. and the library won't have books for the programming I do. Using the Easy Door Library. I can't beleave that no one else has had this same problem and a fix for it. okay i just emailed the author of easy door and he ...

idk about online, but I know at my town's Library there's still a bunch of Qbasic/QuickBasic programming books... this is a better idea if I had the money. Just to go out and $$$ one would be even better. It's just to go or do any thing out side my own home would cost money. ? You're library charge...

Erik wrote:idk about online, but I know at my town's Library there's still a bunch of Qbasic/QuickBasic programming books...

this is a better idea if I had the money. Just to go out and buy one would be even better. It's just to go or do any thing out side my own home would cost money.

I don't know where one might find a QuickBASIC manual, but, a good place to learn is with tutorials. For starters, go to the top of this site and click on the link, Return to Pete's QBasic Site Then, search in the left-hand sidebar for Tutorials. If you need more tutorials, let us know. Most of the...

Yes, I guess so. Maybe I'll just stick with text files

Thats a lot of code just to read and write to a buffer. Thanks

Its called an input buffer, NOT a file Buffer

What I want to do is. Is read from a file and only display the first 20 lines. then give an option to quit, or read more. open the file Line input #1, line$ ' A way to loop threw until the 1st 20 lines area read in print line$ input "Read More or Quit" if More then read the next 20 lines o...

You could load the list of strings into the memory buffer as variables in an array. Using A:\AnyFile.Txt again... DIM Buffer$(500) 'Change to line numbers in file OPEN "A:\AnyFile.txt" FOR INPUT ACCESS READ AS #1 DO LINE INPUT #1, Buffer$(A%) A% = A% + 1 LOOP UNTIL EOF(1) Then, each line ...

BBSmates is working today...get over there! :) also if you can email one of those old door maker guys there are still some around alot of them worked with basic and pascal to make those old doors and can help. Thats where I was hoping to get some help. they just don;t have the time or they won;t he...

well what it sounds like is you want to store something in EMS or XMS memory and not an actual file... here is one explaination of a "buffer" : Buffer: When referring to memory a buffer is temporary storage in memory used to temporarily store information while other information is being p...

Copy some text file to a floppy on the A:\ drive, let's say, the file, "AnyFile.txt" Now, enter this little program in QuickBASIC: CLS OPEN "A:\AnyFile.txt" FOR INPUT AS #1 WHILE NOT EOF(1) WHILE INKEY$ = "":WEND LINE INPUT #1, A$ PRINT A$ WEND CLOSE #1 Run the program...

From the Wikipedia: Buffer (computer science), memory used to temporarily store output or input data. "Writing" to a buffer: When you read a file from your hard drive, from a floppy, etc. you first OPEN the file, and assign a buffer file number, as in the code line: OPEN "C:\Letters\...

Does any one know how to read and write from the buffer I can't beleave that no one knows how to do this Toper Topers BBS What "buffer" are you talking about? Regards..... Moneo ok, no one has ever ask me that before. Just like reading and writing to text files. reading and writing to the...

Does any one know how to read and write from the buffer

I can't beleave that no one knows how to do this

Toper
Topers BBS

these guys can probably help you the best with BBS and doors... http://www.bbsmates.com/ i use to run a wildcat BBS in the day.... here is a list of doordrop files http://www.geocities.com/$$$/doorfile.html door.bat i can't quite remember but it was something like.. path to the doordrop file path t...

Has any one ever make some BBS doors using this library. If so I could use some help and with some ideas 1) Is it possible to setup a internel message editor 2) Does any one know how to setup InterBBS with Easy Door 3) Uploading and Downloading Files from the door. 4 ) Reading and writing to the Buf...