SUMMARY
"Inside QuickBasic" is a monthly magazine published by The Cobb Group,
Inc.
The following article titles are reprinted with permission from the
Cobb Group's "Inside QuickBasic" (c) journal. The article titles are
for the following issues:
1991 1992
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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
"Improving your productivity using Quick Libraries"
"Welcome to 'Inside QuickBasic'"
"Programming the HP LaserJet printer.
"Checking on SHARE and MSHERC"
"Fast text scrolling"
"Source code listings"
August 1991 Issue Contents
"A better way to use BSAVE and BLOAD"
"Writing efficient code"
"Renaming procedures with ALIAS"
"Creating your own input routines"
"Make your programs faster with lookup tables"
"Introduction to the WINDOW and VIEW statements"
"Source code listings"
September 1991 Issue Contents
"Adding a sort routine to your QuickBasic toolkit"
"Extracting the system ID"
"Help with sorting"
"Random number generation"
"Printing the screen from QB programs"
"Confusion about SHELL, TSRs, and RAM availability"
["TSRs" refers to Terminate and Stay Resident programs.]
"Pausing the PRINT spooler for a status check"
"Correcting the aspect ratio with the WINDOW statement"
"Getting new life from old numbers"
October 1991 Issue Contents
"Making your programs bullet-proof with error handling"
"Compressing data with the LZW algorithm"
"A quick tour of command-line options for QB and QBasic"
"Source code listings"
November 1991 Issue Contents
"Better error handling for multimodule programs"
"Performing faster string concatenation"
"Adding a little Muscle to your programs"
"Watch out for missing functions"
"Getting a list of files in the PRINT queue"
"Source code listings"
January 1992 Issue Contents
"Mighty mouse support for your programs"
"Desperately seeking WIMP"
"Seeking a QB tutorial"
"Generating more attractive source listings with metacommands"
"Computing permutations and combinations"
"Source code listings"
February 1992 Issue Contents
"Using more than 640K of RAM with EMS"
[EMS refers to the LIM 4.0 EMS (Lotus-Intel-Microsoft version 4.0
Expanded Memory Specification)
"Generating DTMF signals with the PC speaker"
"Naming your variables defensively"
"DRAWing a distinction between GWBasic and QuickBasic"
"The Soundex algorithm"
"Finding data faster with a sentinel search"
"Source code listings"
March 1992 Issue Contents
"Directories 101: Reading directory entries"
"Traversing hierarchical directories"
"Qualifying and parsing DOS file pathnames"
"Finding where you are with CurDir$ and going someplace else with
ChDrive"
"Source code listings"