Name files with QB 4.0

[Hexadecimal Disaster]

I always found very funny that "friendly competition" between Tele's and Strat's

That's classic. I couldn't resist the temptation to mention it.

[Jark]

Got the answer : the files names were OK, but the files were in a windows directory that had a long name... The path was not solved by QB4.0!

Works fine now, so I have set three options in the Windows files managers for the .bas files :
1) Open > QB4.5, for ergonomy,
2) Edit > Notepad (this allows cut&paste with other Windows applications)
3) Run > QB4.0, for speed.

So I can just right-click on the .bas and choose what I wanna do...

[Blitz]

Why? Why don't you just use qb 4.5 in the first place? You won't get more performance by using 4.0. If you want the best performance you should use vbdos 1.0.

[Jark]

You won't get more performance by using 4.0. If you want the best performance you should use vbdos 1.0.

Well, QB4.0 is "just" three times faster than QB4.5 when you have floating points calculations, and I use a lot of them. Since I use qb.qlb for dos interrupts, I cannot easily load ffix and qb.qlb at the same time: so using QB4.0 for compiling is an easy shortcut...

I've never heard about vbdos... I'll try to find this and I'll be back in case I cannot find it.

[Blitz]

err, ever thought about combining the libs?

[Jark]

Well, I know there are ways to do this, but I lost the method during my HD crash last monday. Antoni Gual had sent me the guidelines...

Is there a way to merge the two libraries into one ? Or is there a way to have the two libs (ffix and qb.qlb) automatically loaded when launching QB ?

This would help me a lot 8) :wink:

[na_th_an]

LIB.EXE and LINK.EXE stuff:: http://www.geocities.com/na_th_an_wopr2k/limits.txt

[Blitz]

Yepp, the lib file is needed for compiling and the qlb file is for running in the IDE. So first you need to combine to libs, and if you want to use it in the IDE as well you need to create a qlb as well.

lib ffixqb.lib +ffix.lib +qb.lib;
link /q ffixqb.lib, ffixqb.qlb,, bqlb45.lib;

now you have ffixqb.lib and ffixqb.qlb which contain both qb.lib and ffix.lib.