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Sorry, I meant under the topic "QB Coding and Printer questions".

(...fairly new member gets lost in the forum...)

Doesn't the LPRINT command send commands to the printer? Lprint DOES send data to the printer, but only text such as the contents of string or numeric constants or expressions, like LPRINT "Hello" LPRINT num+6 He's trying to print graphics, which in the case of DOS is easy by pressing the...

You need an exit from the shell. If it's not returning to QB automatically, you may need to run a batch file instead of WORD directly, then put the command "exit" at the end of the batch file. (...but I didn't actually try this).

See my response under "Newbie Question: Line Breaks"

Printing from DOS to a network printer is easy with the Windows "Net use" command. Before printing (via a batch file or something) issue a "net use" command like: Net Use lpt1: \\servername\printername I've noticed on my network, it works best to delete it first, even if it doesn...

If you're printing to a file, the same concept works: Just don't forget the comma on the empty Print # statement.

Thanks guys! That's exactly what I was looking for. I have suspected for a long time that my (qb 3.0) rnd state is only 3 bytes long. This confirms it. I'll take the code and try it in both qb 3 and qb 4. (BTW, the rnd output in GW-BASIC is different. I suspect it has slightly different parameters.)

Ok, here's a couple of lines of code for you: To count something you must start with a counter set to zero! sumpos=0 To test if something is positive check if it's greater than zero: if num>0 then..... To count, add "1" to the counter (conditionally, of course): if num>0 then sumpos=sumpos...

I know this is a dead topic, but...

AltaVista's "Link:" search option will return results when Google's "Link:" option will not.

Ok, my turn... There are a couple of topics here dealing with random number/letter generation. My question deals with starting, or seeding Basic's random number genereator (rng). Generally that is done with the Randomize statement using "timer" as the seed value: RANDOMIZE timer But I have...

How about asking questions whose answers vary with time, then have the program check the time, compute the correct answer and compare that with the answer supplied by the user.... just a thought...

The fun in programming is learning to do it and seeing positive results. Start with an array and a loop. Make the array as big as you need it to be for the final row of the triangle. Start with a two element array consisting of 1, 1. Within the loop reproduce the first array element, then compute (a...

considering the fact that it was school, I simply dared to assume that part of the exercise was to be able to determine if a number was even Mystik, also a good point. Oh, btw, when dividing by two you could also use the "integer division" operator, \, the backslash. For example: if n\2 =...

I wrote a program in QuickBasic to generate a list of random names and associated random email addresses (as spam bait). You can find the output here: http://www.chibardun.net/~zim/friends.htm I downloaded a list of the most popular boys/girls/sur- names from the government's census bureau web site ...

Here's a trick I use to check for divisibility by 4, for Leap Years and such:
The "-4" is for divisibility by 4. The same concept will work for any power of two.

How about:
We often forget the "skip" keyword on the for statement. Its use eliminates the need for a test inside the loop.

--Zim

I've compiled and run programs using QuickBASIC v 3.0 on 8086, 286, 386, 486, Pentium I, II, and III computers running DOS 2.1, 3.x, 5, 6.0, and 6.2 plus Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT 3.51, NT4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP with no compatibility issues found anywhere. But then, I don't do very complicat...

Ok, I'm back, and not a guest anymore.