D.J.Peters wrote:If you read from stdin you use

Open Cons For Input As #hFile

then my posted solution will work

if not why

you can post the code also

Joshy

Thank you D.J.Peters, your code solved my problem!

It seems, that we are talking about two different things. This needs some clarification first. If you are connecting to a hardware (physical) terminal, then I think: Joshi is correct (and the FB command is: Open COM) And, atachement to Linux Terminals IO streams, whould not be correct. The text ter...

"... Inkey, Getkey, and Multikey ..." What have this functions to do with a RS-232 connection ? In FreeBASIC a RS-232 connection is like a file read / write operation. KeyPgOpenCom Joshy The RS232 terminal is a text console, i.e. attached to Linux as stdin/stdout. It is accessed inside Fr...

I would like to donate to the developer crew that created FreeBASIC. I have gotten a lot of use and enjoyment out of FreeBASIC, and the community has been very responsive to my questions and needs. I am honored that one of my feature requests was included in FB! Is there a place I can PayPal or othe...

Hi, I am running a console-mode program on an RS232 text dumb terminal. The terminal hardware sends escape sequence keycodes for the F-keys, arrow keys, etc. Example: Pressing F1 makes the terminal send: Ctrl+A, @, <CR> In other words Chr$(1), Chr$(64), Chr$(13) Problem: Inkey, Getkey, and Multikey ...

speedfixer wrote:My method, also.
I use a ramdisk in a common mapped directory for the lockfile to trim the time hit a little.
Windows and Linux.


David

Am I understanding that you read/write your lockfile on a ramdisk instead of a hard drive to speed up access times?

How much of a difference does this make?

You can simulate file locking by using a special lock file in conjunction with the "Name" statement. Start with a lock file name such as "lockfile.off". When an application needs to lock a file it should attempt to rename the lock file to something else. If the rename fails then...

Can we revisit this issue? I think it is important to be able to lock files for safe writing.

I am using files in RANDOM mode and would like to be able to lock entire files.

Code execution should be faster by using cumulative addition instead of multiplication inside the loop: S = 0 DO S = S + Y IF S = X THEN REMAINDER = "NO": EXIT DO IF S > X THEN REMAINDER = "YES": EXIT DO LOOP Ha! That's what I get for coding stoned. Love your solution. Thanks fx...

Without MOD, I need another way to determine whether Number X is evenly divisible by Number Y. Currently I test whether X MOD Y = 0 is true (if it is, there is no remainder for X DIV Y, thus it is evenly divisible). What is another way to do this without using MOD or DIV? I think I solved my own pr...

may I suggest that you use QB64 instead of FB http://www.qb64.net or https://www.qb64.org forum http://www.qb64.net/forum/index.php I depend on several commands/features supported only by FreeBASIC (even in -lang qb). 20,000+ lines of code in my program would be a lot to rewrite. Without MOD, I nee...

srvaldez wrote:if your code uses mod or division (have not tried the other operators) then there'a problem.

Nailed it!

I used MOD twice :)

Wait for a bugfix or is there a workaround for MOD in 64-bit lang QB?

hello skystrick this code compiles and runs ok using FreeBASIC Compiler - Version 1.06.0 (02-04-2017), built for linux-x86_64 (64bit) #lang "qb" dim as __LONGINT x input "enter x ";x print sqr(x) print "enter return to exit " sleep Your code does compile and run withou...

Hi, it looks like a bug with the -lang qb code generation on 64bit. I'm going to make a bug report. Thanks! Any suggestions for a workaround? Or just wait for a patch? EDIT: Maybe it has to do with the platform? I'm compiling under GNU/Linux 32bit. I'm compiling under Ubuntu Linux 64-bit using FBC ...

Switched some variables in a program from INTEGER to __LONGINT (I am using -lang qb), now FBC compiler throws this error:

PROGRAM.o: In function 'main':
PROGRAM.c:(.text+0x2bdf3): undefined reference to '__moddi3'
PROGRAM.c:(.text+0x2be9e): undefined reference to '__moddi3'

Help?