Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!aioe.org!.POSTED.3dNlfFrUrV68GduPD6l6+A.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: gamo Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.misc,comp.lang.basic.powerbasic Subject: Re: Salutations! I'm searching an old BASIC programmer Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:52:08 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 95 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 3dNlfFrUrV68GduPD6l6+A.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 Content-Language: es X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.basic.misc:480 comp.lang.basic.powerbasic:90 El 29/3/20 a las 7:22, Wildman escribió: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 23:43:43 +0100, gamo wrote: > >> El 28/3/20 a las 3:21, Wildman escribió: >>> On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:39:17 +0100, gamo wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All! >>>> >>>> I'm searching a BASIC programmer which name was greek. >>>> I can't remind, around two decades ago. >>> >>> I don't think I ever knew about greek. I don't recall >>> the name. >>> >>>> I think he program a library with menus, et cetera for >>>> Power Basic v.3.2 or v.32 called like nuts & bolts. >>>> I was a beta tester of that library. I coldn't find a >>>> serious error. Is he alive? >>> >>> I'm not sure but this might be the library you are looking >>> for. Start here... >>> >>> https://www.pbhq.com/search/ >>> >>> Click on "PowerBASIC Filebase" then "PB/DOS:Tools & Toolkits". >>> Take a look at N-B-V206.ZIP, Nutz /n Boltz for PowerBASIC. >>> Also, look at MNUSYS23.ZIP, Menusys for PowerBASIC 3.0. >>> In addition there is a lot of other good stuff there. >>> >>>> Second question is where are the archives of all kind >>>> of basic dialects and free source code of that time ago >>>> called ABC... ALL BASIC CODE... ??? He and I (modestly) >>>> contribute to that. >>> >>> A lot of source code of all kinds are here... >>> >>> https://programmersheaven.com/ >>> >>>> Thanks in advance, best, >>>> >>>> >>>> J.L.M. >>> >> >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I'm a very nostalgic type of person. >> THIS HAS SENTIMENTAL VALUE AND NOT PROFESSIONAL VALUE... >> MORE VALUE... >> > > You are very welcome. I too can get nostalgic at times. > I still have a DOS box with WFW3.11, VB3, PowerBASIC and > MASM5 that I fire up now and then. Lots of fun. > >> J.L.M. >> >> Post data: Currently I like a lot, simple Perl scripts... > > I tried Perl for a short time for a project I was working > on but decided on Python. I seemed that more sample code > was available for the things I was wanting to do. Plus > there is a newsgroup where some experienced programmers > hang out. I did a Python version of Marek's Linfo script > that was written in Bash. I think you were around back > when he was active on the Ubuntu and Mint groups. > Perl 5, like Python, are very *POWERFUL* but EDITOR AGNOSTIC!!! Example what Perl do: while (<>){ @words_or_numbers = split /\s+/; } print @words_or_numbers; exit 1; Best regards. J.L.M. -- http://gamo.sdf-eu.org/ “Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.”