Ha-ha! I still have a couple of those old drives. Â G. ________________________________ From: Michael Reich <mareich49@...> To:...
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jcarr@...
jcarr@ymail.com
Apr 10, 2012 9:45 am
I'm seeing an odd issue with the Mac OS X version (version 3.6.5b3) with Chipmunk Basic set as the default application to open .bas files. Writing a simple...
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regisaddress
Apr 10, 2012 9:46 am
Hey All, I want to make a program that will change the name of several files to different names. I have a list of the original file names "file.csv"; and want...
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rhnlogic
Apr 11, 2012 8:45 pm
There's a link to it on the official Chipmunk Basic home page: http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/ - updated for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Lion - may fix a...
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Gary Morris
gwmorris...
Apr 13, 2012 4:18 pm
Think of the filenames in the files as just strings. If they are not actually files in a directory, that's all they are really. If the one file has a filename...
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Gary
gwmorris...
Apr 19, 2012 4:48 pm
After I read this a few times, I realized that maybe you ARE actually wanting to rename files. There is a command, 'save <fname> as <newfname>' or something...
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Paul Doudna
pauldoudna
Apr 23, 2012 2:34 am
I recently uploaded "Basic Basic Reference Manual v04" to the Files area. I call it "Basic Basic" because I have not included various experimental extensions....
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rhnlogic
Jul 26, 2012 7:27 pm
Has anyone tried running the latest version of Chipmunk Basic (3.6.6) on Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8)? Thanks!...
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rhnlogic
Sep 19, 2012 9:59 pm
Chipmunk Basic appears to run just fine on a Mac running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2....
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tmodel80
Oct 9, 2012 6:21 pm
Hi All Here is a bit of code that gets an error message every time at line 30. I've tried using print instead of output and reversed the order of file number...
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jeffonymail
Oct 11, 2012 12:20 pm
Hi, Bob. There are a few problems: 1) The "output" command is invalid in Chipmunk BASIC. You need to use "print". 2) There is no check for end of file so the...
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jeffonymail
Oct 11, 2012 1:10 pm
Hi, Bob. Here's some further thoughts: In my revised program, I used a goto to jump out of the loop. That's O.K. in the example since we are jumping out to end...
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Robert Ford
tmodel80
Oct 12, 2012 2:00 am
Hi Jeff Your suggestion took care of the problem. I was just doing a trial for a much larger file to see if it would work and didn't know the write wouldn't...
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tmodel80
Oct 12, 2012 2:00 am
Thanks to Richard and Jeff I now know what was wrong. I had not closed the file not realizing that until that happened the file would not be written. Clear...
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marionbarryuk
Nov 10, 2012 6:51 pm
I'd like to use bold and inverse text in an OS X command line app I am working on, but I have not been able to find the control code to do as such. Any hints? ...
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jeffonymail
Nov 11, 2012 12:54 pm
Hi, Pete. Normally we are using ASCII text for which there is no provision for bold or italic. To add bold and italic you need to use some sort of convention...
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jeffonymail
Nov 11, 2012 2:14 pm
Hi, Pete. After sending my previous reply I realized that a) you said inverse, not italic and b) maybe you meant the ability to draw text on the screen rather...
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Larr
larr_helms
Nov 13, 2012 2:23 pm
I used to do this stuff all the time when I was MUCH YOUNGER (I'm now almost 50): Unfortunately, this sort of thing usually required knowledge of the terminal...
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jewisonc
Nov 14, 2012 5:43 pm
I think what he is referring to is shown in the small example program below Now in-order for this to work you need a Mac Teminal console app that can display...
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jewisonc
Nov 14, 2012 5:43 pm
In previous my message Line 1004 should read as below, it won't stop the program from working it just corrects the comment. 1004 'bg$...
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marionbarryuk
Nov 14, 2012 5:43 pm
Thanks, that is what I was looking for!...
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Larr
larr_helms
Nov 15, 2012 5:42 pm
And here's a bit of fun for you too (sets your command prompt - best viewed on a Black Terminal background) PS1='\n\[\e[0;36m\]\h \[\e[1;37m\] ::...
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swsaaltink
Nov 19, 2012 5:22 pm
Hi, I d like to ask my students to approach an HP printer directly using PCL (HP) commands and Chipmunk Basic. I v done this before but with another basic...
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toml_12953
Jan 8, 2013 3:18 pm
In the Windows version of CB, MAT READ doesn't seem to work. The following should print the input data as read but you can see the output below: 10 option base...
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polyman71
Mar 16, 2013 10:24 pm
If there is anyone reading this forum.... I am using open "SFGetFile" for input as #pnum to open a file. My program then alters the data and saves a new file...
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rjschmidt@...
rjschmidt...
Mar 22, 2013 6:21 pm
Mike: Try something like this: 10 open "SFGetFile" for input as #pnum 20 input "Enter the name of the required file: ";b$ This assigns b$ to the file name...
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Nathan
nathanrgriffin
Apr 4, 2013 3:41 pm
Hi. I'm a BASIC programmer from long, long, ago.... Ok, it's been about 35 years since I've tried to write BASIC programs. I'm pretty familiar with BASIC,...
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Nathan
nathanrgriffin
Apr 4, 2013 3:41 pm
Sorry, folks, found a typo. File opens ok!...
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jeffonymail
Apr 15, 2013 1:49 pm
MacBookPro running OSX 10.8.3 and Chipmunk BASIC v3.6.6(b0). In Chipmunk BASIC, if I type in the command sound 880,1,40 or run a program that includes...
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jeffonymail
Apr 15, 2013 1:53 pm
The spaces I put around the command were removed after I posted the message which makes the command unclear. The command (without the quotes) is "sound...
