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by xcskier
Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:58 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: print Qbasic output by BubbleJet printer
Replies: 13
Views: 27053

help printing Qbasic file

Moneo: thanks for the offer. I was waiting to get a result from the local computer consultant before replying. The consultant, I believe, tried the same thing you are offering: the Qbasic datafile is compiled and he ran it through some kind of interpreter or text editor, to interpret it. But what ca...
by xcskier
Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:54 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: print Qbasic output by BubbleJet printer
Replies: 13
Views: 27053

Qbasic consultants?

The Awakened: yeah, that's what I hoped to try to do when I set the Windows print manager to "write to file". I don't know why it didn't work, but whatever... Thanks to all. At this point I'm going to take the floppy to a local PC consultant, who says "no charge if I can't recover the...
by xcskier
Mon Jan 23, 2006 6:28 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: print Qbasic output by BubbleJet printer
Replies: 13
Views: 27053

Qbasic and printers

I tried setting my print manager to "generic/text....write to disk", then to open and print the print file from a word processor. No files are written using the print command in Qbasic. Yes, I could have googled on Freebasic....as I could have done for my previous questions. So why registe...
by xcskier
Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:48 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: print Qbasic output by BubbleJet printer
Replies: 13
Views: 27053

Qbasic printing

No I can't print it from NotePad, it's a random file.

When I went to Pete's homepage and clicked on "freebasic" under "Learn Qbasic", the page says "coming soon".

Can anyone tell me where/how to get freebasic?
by xcskier
Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:50 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: print Qbasic output by BubbleJet printer
Replies: 13
Views: 27053

print Qbasic output by BubbleJet printer

I just got a new Canon iP4000 BJ printer....and can't print from Qbasic anymore. Canon support tells me it's because their (and all other) new
printers don't recognize DOS print manager.

My guess is that there must be a Windows version of Qbasic which would drive the printer. Any suggestions?
by xcskier
Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:10 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Help! with corruption of random file
Replies: 9
Views: 12932

Really strange!

OK, over the weekend I tried some things and here's the current situation. The older datafile on my floppy disk works fine when I open it using Qbasic from my harddrive. That is, I start Qbasic on the harddrive, then tell the program to run the datafile "a:\xxx". Works fine. BUT WHEN I COP...
by xcskier
Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:24 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Help! with corruption of random file
Replies: 9
Views: 12932

Nekrophidius: I looked in Feldman and Rugg's manual "Using Quickbasic 4" and I don't see an advantage for binary over random files. Can I impose the same record structure on binary as for random? Ie, each of my records is a separate sample having up to 10 measurements: can I keep the measu...
by xcskier
Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:59 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Help! with corruption of random file
Replies: 9
Views: 12932

OK, I ran Scandisk and had no errors or corrections. Steph: what does "lol" in your reply mean? All: I'll research the Read/Write access stuff for future reference. Most of the time I open this file, it's not to add to it or to modify it, only to operate on the numbers. So if I've been re-...
by xcskier
Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:20 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Help! with corruption of random file
Replies: 9
Views: 12932

Kevin: I'll try running Scandisk tonight, although have run it in the past(but not since problem appeared) without it fixing any shortcomings. Nekrophidius: yes, this is the sort of thing I vaguely felt might be happening. Do you know, when a random file is opened for printing (not editing), is it t...
by xcskier
Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:44 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Help! with corruption of random file
Replies: 9
Views: 12932

Help! with corruption of random file

I'm using Qbasic with a copyright date of 1992 (a bit old). PC with Windows ME. Haven't had any problems with my Qbasic programs until recently. Problem is with some random-access files of numbers I've created. Typical file is 400 records long, each one consisting of 10 variables, most single-precis...