Recent content by scoundrel86

Thanks Buff1, but I was hoping to have a single executable as this program will be set up on multiple computers, so I wanted as simple an installation as possible. Late last night I found an acceptable solution. A problem with XP and QuickBasic is that QuickBasic cannot perform the following...

I have a problem. I wrote a program using QB4.5 to take a file created by a DOS program, print it to a postscript file, and then pass it to ghostscript (v8.13 or v8.15) to convert it to a pdf, then launch the default viewer. The program works great under Win98se, but is having problems under...

That's great and a big duh on my part. But now I have another question: How can I tell if I am running in a DOS window under Win9x or if the computer was booted to only DOS, where I can't run other programs from my quickbasic program such as Adobe Acrobat? The VER command returns the same...

I need to determine the version of windows that my compiled QB4.5 program is running under. In my program, I am shelling out to run a batch file that is created from within the program. In order to run the programs properly from the batch file, I need to specify either the use of COMMAND for...