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From: Matt Giwer
Subject: Re: It's crazy, but I'm doing it...
Date: 11 Jan 2000 21:37:44
Message: <387D3A82.4C091FF8@ij.net>
Chris Huff wrote:

> Real programmers write the machine code directly to a disk with a tiny
> magnet on the end of a pin.

    As a .zp file.


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: QBASIC 1.1 is on the disk
Date: 11 Jan 2000 21:44:19
Message: <387BEB1F.F9BB9C69@pacbell.net>
Matt Giwer wrote:
> 
> John VanSickle wrote:
> 
> > I'm using QuickBasic 1.1 (released in 1992).  As far as I know, even
> > if you're using GW-Basic you'll be in good shape.
> 
>     If folks take the time to read the Windows installation (98 at
> least, likely all of them) disk they will be directed to a goodies
> directory that is not installed with Windows. QBASIC 1.1 is there along
> with a few other "useless" things like filecomp and such. After all we
> wouldn't want to confuse people with technical things.

I never uninstalled it to begin with. I have had a .bas directory
off of my c: root ever since I started using a computer and that
is where qbasic.exe is stored. In fact the c:\bas directory is
still in my autoexec path statement :)

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Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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From: Chris Huff
Subject: Re: It's crazy, but I'm doing it...
Date: 11 Jan 2000 21:47:57
Message: <chrishuff_99-E4CB39.21481511012000@news.povray.org>
In article <387D3A82.4C091FF8@ij.net>, Matt Giwer <jul### [at] ijnet> 
wrote:

> Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> > Real programmers write the machine code directly to a disk with a tiny
> > magnet on the end of a pin.
> 
>     As a .zp file.

No, in a self extracting compressed file format that they developed 
themselves. :-)

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Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/


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From: Mark Wagner
Subject: Re: It's crazy, but I'm doing it...
Date: 12 Jan 2000 01:13:51
Message: <387c1b9f@news.povray.org>
John VanSickle wrote in message <387B5847.A94D5720@erols.com>...
>Real programmers can compile stuff in their heads.


*Anyone* can compile stuff in their heads.  A real programmer can
*decompile* stuff in their head.

Mark

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*


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From: Ken Matassa
Subject: Re: It's crazy, but I'm doing it...
Date: 13 Jan 2000 23:01:48
Message: <12D437B5.28F6@pacbell.net>
Oh, please, please, please, not Quick Basic. A binary please, please,
please. Maybe even for DOS?!???!!!

I have actaual been toying with the idea of creating a triangle editor
for Pov-ray in C. It is one of, if not the most, need tools for Pov-ray.

Ken Matassa


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From: Nieminen Juha
Subject: Re: It's crazy, but I'm doing it...
Date: 14 Jan 2000 05:08:26
Message: <387ef59a@news.povray.org>
Ken Matassa <kma### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
: Oh, please, please, please, not Quick Basic. A binary please, please,
: please. Maybe even for DOS?!???!!!

  But quickbasic creates binaries.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: It's crazy, but I'm doing it...
Date: 14 Jan 2000 10:29:02
Message: <387F4101.5FF0E674@pacbell.net>
Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
> Ken Matassa <kma### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> : Oh, please, please, please, not Quick Basic. A binary please, please,
> : please. Maybe even for DOS?!???!!!
> 
>   But quickbasic creates binaries.

Not my version !

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Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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From: Nieminen Juha
Subject: Re: It's crazy, but I'm doing it...
Date: 14 Jan 2000 11:05:44
Message: <387f4958@news.povray.org>
Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
:>   But quickbasic creates binaries.

: Not my version !

  QuickBasic is not the same thing as QBasic.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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From: John VanSickle
Subject: Re: It's crazy, but I'm doing it...
Date: 14 Jan 2000 16:54:47
Message: <387F9CF0.E500305F@erols.com>
Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
> Ken Matassa <kma### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> : Oh, please, please, please, not Quick Basic. A binary please,
> : please, please. Maybe even for DOS?!???!!!
> 
>   But quickbasic creates binaries.

The real problem is the lack of mouse support in QuickBasic 1.1, which
means keyboard commands, which makes it very time-consuming to select a
point in order to make a triangle from it; right now the user has to
scroll through the other points in order to select the desired point, and then
find two more in order to define a triangle.

Since uploading the original version, I have added the ability to copy
the marked points.  In order to do this I also had to re-write the
point creation subroutine so that the previous hard-wired limit of
1000 was no longer in effect.  There was no error-checking in the
first version, so the user adding the 1001st point was in for a rude
lesson in frequent saves...

There are a couple more changes that need to be made.  Someday I'll
upload the results.

Regards,
John


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From: Nieminen Juha
Subject: Re: It's crazy, but I'm doing it...
Date: 17 Jan 2000 05:33:05
Message: <3882efe1@news.povray.org>
If it's possible to make system interrupt calls (int 33) or directly inline
assembler in quickbasic, you could make your own mouse reading routines.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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