Question :)

[chimerian]

I have question.
I would like download file from serwer (http://puma01.w.interia.pl/file.txt) with QBasic 4.5, but I dont know what to do it
I need it for include auto-update in my program.
Please help.

[adosorken]

QB 4.5 has no internet capabilities. You'd have to use somthing like dsock for that.

[urger]

Download cURL from http://curl.haxx.se/download.html,
The packages area contains executable binarys.
Place CURL.EXE in the same directory as QB.

Use the following code to download:

Code:

SHELL "CURL  -# -o "+ filename$ + chr$(32)+ url$

Where filename$ is the variable containing the name the download should be saved as on your computer and url$ is the variable which states the file to be downloaded.

Warning: After about 6000 consecutive downloads I tend to get a stack overload error from QB. I don't know why.

Is it hackish? Yes. Does it work? Also yes. Hope that helps.

[chimerian]

I have problem.
I dont know which file I should download
I downloaded:
"curl-7.12.3.zip", but zip file doesnt include "CURL.EXE" so I went to: "curl Download Wizard" and there I saw "curl executable" (I select DOS system - but again i doesnt saw "curl.exe").
Where I should search this file ?

[urger]

Actually you should download the Win32 (Generic) non SSL version of cURL. Sorry I wasn't more specific before! :oops:
Link: http://curl.signal42.com/download/curl-7...32-ssl.zip

[chimerian]

I downloaded it.
This is code of my program:

filename$ = "file.txt"
url$ = "http://puma01.w.interia.pl/file.txt"
SHELL "CURL -# -o " + filename$ + CHR$(32) + url$

Qbasic compile it correctly, but Windows return error (critical error with CURL.EXE) when program is running.

I have Windows XP with SP2

[urger]

Hmmm, very strange, on my XP comp (all M$ updates to current) that code runs fine.