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  1. Bregga

    Can direct disk I/O be done in VB6?

    Does anyone know how to set the FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING parameter in VB. It apparently is available for C, but I don't see how to set it for VB. I am interested in writing a disk test to exercise the disk, and with buffered I/O, NT moves the data through cache, so the disk activity is not...
  2. Bregga

    MegaRaid disk controller performance

    Anyone feel that there is a performance problem on NT servers using MegaRaid disk controllers in a Raid 5 (or raid 0 for that matter) configuration? The I/O times from MS diskprobe show smaller I/O bytes per I/O and greater I/O time than other raid controllers.
  3. Bregga

    How do I "talk" to a joystick using VB 5 or 6?

    I understand there is a DirectX control that you should use to read from joysticks, but how do I get started. Where does this control appear and how do you get it on your form, etc?<br>
  4. Bregga

    Unisys Cobol74 8 digit dates now available

    A new release of Unisys Cobol74 will return the century when you do an accept statement.<br> Documented syntax: ACCEPT &lt;my ws date&gt; FROM TODAYS-DATE MMDDYYYY.<br> <br> where &lt;my ws date&gt; is an 8-digit working storage item.<br> <br> Undocumented syntax - they have also changed the...
  5. Bregga

    Y2K testing with Unisys MCP DATEOFFSET attribute

    You can test Cobol,Algol, etc. programs for year 2000 dates by setting the DATEOFFSET task option. This was added to the Unisys MCP in 44.2 level.<br> <br> Any time & date call the program does, will be bumbed by the value you set in DATEOFFSET.<br> Example: Run $MYPROG;dateoffset = 180 <br>...

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