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    Issue with screen size

    Sorry for the double post. Having IE trouble.
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    Issue with screen size

    I think that the SCREEN COLS and ROWS function will return the ASCII value of the character at that location. It sounds to me that the problem mailbox061583 is having is related to DOSBox and not QBASIC. This may be related to a display setting in the DOSBox config file. The screen resolution...
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    Issue with screen size

    I think that the SCREEN COLS and ROWS function will return the ASCII value of the character at that location. It sounds to me that the problem mailbox061583 is having is related to DOSBox and not QBASIC. This may have to do with a display setting in the DOSBox config file. The screen...
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    a way to loop with CHAIN

    If you are using Windows then the delay may be from the fact that the LPRINT command has to be interpreted by Windows first and may need to be sent to the print queue, before it is sent to the parallel port. Just try doing an LPRINT to send a text string to your printer. It takes a while. The...
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    Shell Execution Problem

    You might want to try and check your path. For instance; if you have your program that is using the SHELL command in the DOS directory, and the ftype program is in another directory (say the “utilities” directory) then the SHELL command will not work unless you specify the drive and path in your...
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    how to start--revisited

    I believe that brisray gave some useful information to answer your question in your previous thread. It may have been difficult to find in the ethical quagmire that ensued. You may want to go back and reread brisray's posts. You may even want to look at some of the links to the Microsoft legal...
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    setup program

    To answer Nyaj2k1's question about what Windows XP returns for a version, I think that if you could type VER at the command prompt it should return something like: Microsoft Windows XP [version x.x.z] Where x is tha actual version number, and z is the build number. I don't know if this is...
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