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by PhilClark
Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:23 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Modern replacement for RPSORT.COM?
Replies: 3
Views: 19825

Re: Modern replacement for RPSORT.COM?

I have just tried to run RPSORT.COM on my W7 64-bit machine and had an error message to say that the software will not run on a 64-bit machine. To be honest, this is a major disaster for me since all of the 22 years archive data repy upon using this as the sort programme. So ........ An extract from...
by PhilClark
Mon Sep 12, 2016 6:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Modern replacement for RPSORT.COM?
Replies: 3
Views: 19825

Re: Modern replacement for RPSORT.COM?

I have a whole series of data files which are pure text, fixed fields. At present RPSORT.COM does a sort on each file using first catalogue number in field 3 and then date/time within each catalogue number in field 5.
by PhilClark
Fri Sep 02, 2016 10:55 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Modern replacement for RPSORT.COM?
Replies: 3
Views: 19825

Modern replacement for RPSORT.COM?

I have been using the command line command RPSORT.COM to sort pure text data files for around 25 years, but since the author has died there have been no updates for around 20 years. It allows me to specify two or more data fields to use for the sort. Is anyone aware of a similar up-to-date piece of ...
by PhilClark
Tue Jun 14, 2016 1:47 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Compiling software
Replies: 4
Views: 12737

Re: Compiling software

I have now amended by batch file to conform with the command line given above, but another problem has reared its head. My existing QB45 files seem to have a character right at the end of the file and this needs to be edited out: not doing this results in the QB64 compiler crashing because it cannot...
by PhilClark
Sun Jun 05, 2016 11:08 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Compiling software
Replies: 4
Views: 12737

Re: Compiling software

A belated thank you for your help!
by PhilClark
Mon Dec 14, 2015 9:59 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Compiling software
Replies: 4
Views: 12737

Compiling software

I have a lot of programs that I have written using QB45 but now that I have a Windoze 7 64-bit machine I have just installed QB64 on that. I am now having a couple of obvious problems using the QB64 software. I have the QBASIC software installed in C:\QB64 and all of my source code is located in C:\...