BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 01-31-93 (22:31) Number: 378
From: ROB MCKEE Refer#: NONE
To: CHRIS TRACY Recvd: NO
Subj: External Variables Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
Hello Chris!
You wrote in a message to Ron Sharrad:
> Good advice; try it and you'll find that UCASE$(COMMAND$) and
> COMMAND$ both return the same thing - QB uppercases it whether
> you want it to or not.
CT> actually, i have a patch for the BCOM45 lib that Hanlin
CT> typed... lemme look it up.
CT> -------- Cut Here --------
CT> Here is a list of some patches for QuickBASIC. I have
CT> tested them on my copy of BCOM45.LIB. They will quite
CT> possibly also work with other versions of the BASIC runtime
CT> library. As
CT> always when applying patches, *** MAKE A BACKUP COPY FIRST
CT> *** in case things don't work out the way you want. I
CT> cannot
CT> guarantee that these patches will work for you, and there is
CT> always a certain amount of danger in making a patch.
CT> Enough said. Grab your favorite debugger or file editor (I
CT> like FED, available at your local BBS) and get hopping.
CT> ----------------------------------------------------------
CT> ----
CT> Prevent QuickBASIC from forcing COMMAND$ to uppercase.
CT> (Original object file: OSCMD.OBJ)
CT> Seek: 3C 61 72 06 3C 7A 77 02 34 20
CT> Make: EB 08 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
CT> ----------------------------------------------------------
CT> ----
CT> Prevent QuickBASIC from zeroing BIOS comm data on OPEN
CT> "COM..." (Original object file: LLCOM3.OBJ)
CT> Seek: 1E 33 D2 8E DA 87 95 00 04 1F
CT> Make: 1E 33 D2 8E DA 8B 95 00 04 1F
CT> Seek: 1E 33 D2 8E DA 89 9D 00 04 1F
CT> Make: 90 33 D2 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
CT> ----------------------------------------------------------
CT> ----
CT> Prevent QuickBASIC from dropping the DTR on a comm port.
CT> (Original object file: LLCOM3.OBJ)
CT> Seek: B0 00 E3 01 40 83 C2 04 EE
CT> Make: B0 00 90 90 40 83 C2 04 EE
CT> Note that if you apply this patch, you will have to drop the
CT> DTR "manually" if you want it lowered. The DTR routine in
CT> my PBClone library can do that for you.
CT> ----------------------------------------------------------
CT> ---- -------- Cut Here --------
CT> well, hope that does someone some good..
Just used it on QBX.EXE BCL71EFR.LIB BCL71ENR.LIB QB.EXE BCOM45.LIB and it
works great on all of them! The one for COMMAND$ is only
done on the SECOND occurance in QB.EXE and QBX.EXE! The
first one is for it's command line IE:
qb /lqborig.qlb /ah /b /cmd
1st one is for this line
Second one is for the COMMAND$..
The LIB's only have one occurance!
Catcha Later , I'll see you on the flip side - Rob
--- timEd/B6
* Origin: Flyer_Proof_Computer_Svs,V32B,V42B,XA (1:125/1212.13)
