Microsoft KB Archive/83346

= Selected Cobb Group &quot;Inside QuickBasic&quot; Journal Article Titles =

Article ID: 83346

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5 for MS-DOS
 * Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.0
 * Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.1

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This article was previously published under Q83346



SUMMARY
&quot;Inside QuickBasic&quot; is a monthly magazine published by The Cobb Group, Inc.

The following article titles are reprinted with permission from the Cobb Group's &quot;Inside QuickBasic&quot; (c) journal. The article titles are for the following issues: 1991     1992

March      January August     February September  March October November For more information, contact the Cobb Group at the following address and phone number:

For more information, contact the Cobb Group at the following address and phone number:

The Cobb Group, Inc.

9420 Bunsen Parkway

Suite 300

Louisville, KY 40220

(800) 223-8720

This information applies to Microsoft QuickBasic version 4.5 for MS-DOS (and also to Microsoft Basic Professional Development System (PDS) versions 7.0 and 7.1 for MS-DOS, which contain a superset of QuickBasic 4.5 features).

March 1991 Issue Contents
&quot;Improving your productivity using Quick Libraries&quot;

&quot;Welcome to 'Inside QuickBasic'&quot;

&quot;Programming the HP LaserJet printer.

&quot;Checking on SHARE and MSHERC&quot;

&quot;Fast text scrolling&quot;

&quot;Source code listings&quot;

August 1991 Issue Contents
&quot;A better way to use BSAVE and BLOAD&quot;

&quot;Writing efficient code&quot;

&quot;Renaming procedures with ALIAS&quot;

&quot;Creating your own input routines&quot;

&quot;Make your programs faster with lookup tables&quot;

&quot;Introduction to the WINDOW and VIEW statements&quot;

&quot;Source code listings&quot;

September 1991 Issue Contents
&quot;Adding a sort routine to your QuickBasic toolkit&quot;

&quot;Extracting the system ID&quot;

&quot;Help with sorting&quot;

&quot;Random number generation&quot;

&quot;Printing the screen from QB programs&quot;

&quot;Confusion about SHELL, TSRs, and RAM availability&quot;

[&quot;TSRs&quot; refers to Terminate and Stay Resident programs.]

&quot;Pausing the PRINT spooler for a status check&quot;

&quot;Correcting the aspect ratio with the WINDOW statement&quot;

&quot;Getting new life from old numbers&quot;

October 1991 Issue Contents
&quot;Making your programs bullet-proof with error handling&quot;

&quot;Compressing data with the LZW algorithm&quot;

&quot;A quick tour of command-line options for QB and QBasic&quot;

&quot;Source code listings&quot;

November 1991 Issue Contents
&quot;Better error handling for multimodule programs&quot;

&quot;Performing faster string concatenation&quot;

&quot;Adding a little Muscle to your programs&quot;

&quot;Watch out for missing functions&quot;

&quot;Getting a list of files in the PRINT queue&quot;

&quot;Source code listings&quot;

January 1992 Issue Contents
&quot;Mighty mouse support for your programs&quot;

&quot;Desperately seeking WIMP&quot;

&quot;Seeking a QB tutorial&quot;

&quot;Generating more attractive source listings with metacommands&quot;

&quot;Computing permutations and combinations&quot;

&quot;Source code listings&quot;

February 1992 Issue Contents
&quot;Using more than 640K of RAM with EMS&quot;

[EMS refers to the LIM 4.0 EMS (Lotus-Intel-Microsoft version 4.0 Expanded Memory Specification)

&quot;Generating DTMF signals with the PC speaker&quot;

&quot;Naming your variables defensively&quot;

&quot;DRAWing a distinction between GWBasic and QuickBasic&quot;

&quot;The Soundex algorithm&quot;

&quot;Finding data faster with a sentinel search&quot;

&quot;Source code listings&quot;

March 1992 Issue Contents
&quot;Directories 101: Reading directory entries&quot;

&quot;Traversing hierarchical directories&quot;

&quot;Qualifying and parsing DOS file pathnames&quot;

&quot;Finding where you are with CurDir$ and going someplace else with ChDrive&quot;

&quot;Source code listings&quot;

Additional query words: QuickBas BasicCom 4.50 7.00 7.10

Keywords: KB83346

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