Re: Overflowing a Long

"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That simply isn't true.

Well it simply is true. If a basic dos app writes to the screen it's not
going to do much in vb6.

Just last year, I sucked some QB4 code directly into VB6. What did it do?
Binary DBF handling. True, once I confirmed it was working (key point
there!), I was able to "objectify" it. It became far prettier, but I
could easily run/edit/test/compile it right within VB6. No sort of binary
file i/o is portable between VB6<->VFred.

And that is a good thing! You guys might like to work in the past but the vb
file handling would have to be not only the worst feature in vb6 but the
worst feature in any language that has ever existed (ok, maybe a slight
exaggeration but not much).

Michael


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