Re: 1980 Basic Sought

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 21:58:24 +0000 (UTC), "Auric__"
<not.my.real@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

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>PowerBasic is a direct descendant of Borland TurboBasic. PB/DOS can 
>run TB programs unaltered, and *most* QB programs that don't use 
>database-specific keywords without change, but almost without 
>exception, VB programs require *some* degree of rewriting to work 
>under PB/Win. There are some things that PB can do better than VB -- 
>most notably network comms, which are handled exactly like files -- 
>while it's considerably easier to do forms in VB. (PB forms are a pain 
>in the ass.)

Well, I was thinking of eventually adding networking capibilities to
the OPEN statement in BCET.  Something like:

OPEN "<network address or name(:****t)> for TCP as #1
OPEN "<network address or name(:****t)> for UDP as #1

The first would act like text mode and you could use PRINT & INPUT OR
LINE INPUT with it.

The second would probably act more like a RANDOM or BINARY file and
probably use GET & PUT.  Haven't quite decided on this yet.   Maybe
better to treat both the same.

The problem is if you have multiple channels open at the same time
waiting for a packet to show up, how does one know which channel to
read from next?  Need something like select except that keyword is
already used. :-)

>
>It was "fun" figuring out all the differences for one of my long-
>abandoned project. [insert giant headache here]
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