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A WIN32 version of the xbasic compiler.	Guy Lonne	10/06/06	1

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 Guy Lonne said on 11/30/06 21:34:58

I asked 2 questions to David Szafranski concerning the console-mode submission:
1. why do I loose the very 1st line: " 99 bottles of beer on the wall, 2 bottles of beer."?

Your program prints many lines of text. It exceeds the default
number of lines in the console buffer. To add more buffer space
you need to use :

IMPORT "xio"

hStdOut = XioGetStdOut ()
' maxLines is number of lines in buffer
maxLines = 500
XioSetConsoleBufferSize (hStdOut, 0, maxLines)


2. why "? b; " bottles..." prints " n bottles..." with a leading space for n?

The leading space is for negative values.
Use STRING$() to remove leading space:

? STRING$(b);

Here is the corrected version:

PROGRAM "test"
VERSION "2.0"
CONSOLE

IMPORT "xio"

DECLARE FUNCTION Entry ()

FUNCTION Entry ()

hStdOut = XioGetStdOut ()
' maxLines is number of lines in buffer
maxLines = 500
XioSetConsoleBufferSize (hStdOut, 0, maxLines)

FOR b = 99 TO 3 STEP -1
' the leading space is for negative values
? STRING$(b);" bottles of beer on the wall,";b;" bottles of beer."
b_1 = b - 1
? "Take one down and pass it around,";b_1;" bottles of beer on the wall.\n"
NEXT b

? "2 bottles of beer on the wall, 2 bottles of beer."
? "Take one down and pass it around, 1 bottle of beer on the wall.\n"

? "1 bottle of beer on the wall, 1 bottle of beer."
? "Take one down and pass it around, no more bottles of beer on the wall.\n"

? "No more bottles of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer."
? "Go to the store and buy some more, 99 bottles of beer on the wall.\n"

a$ = INLINE$ ("Press Enter to quit >"

END FUNCTION
END PROGRAM

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