in Linux, I can set an environment variable with: SETENVIRON("COUNT=123") print ENVIRON("COUNT") will return 123 as a string so far so good.... Doing this fails: MYCOUNT="123" SETENVIRON("COUNT=" + MYCOUNT) print ENVIRON("COUNT") will return a NULL W...

Thank you from 7 years ago. This works perfectly.

And rc being a string, would return the output of the command or the error text if it fails. And how would the user differentiate between those two options? Dim rc as string to get the text output from the command. Return the string or an error... This would be way much better than the current shel...

Hello to a very old post....

Maybe we just need a new SHELL option. Ideally your should be able to:

dim rc as string
rc = shell("dir /")

And rc being a string, would return the output of the command or the error text if it fails.

Would really be much better!

Hey! It's 2020 and I would like to use this. it fails to compile on Debian Buster...

Knatterton wrote:That's common in linux.

Yes! Absolutely. Linux is very good at user permissions. Quite unlike Windows.

Thank you,

I was looking for an IPC solution. This may be what Im looking for.

Jerry

Andy!!!

Still waiting...

I found a misspelling in net.bi. this: Function NetReciveString( needs to be changed to: Function NetReceiveString( And at the end of the function, this: NetReciveString=l needs to be changed to: NetReceiveString=l I cant believe I found this, after all this time.... Anyway, my freebasic server moni...

These are so awesome. I'm a nerd and i'm grinning ear-to-ear!

Hi srvaldez,

Yes, you are correct. I had no luck ether and have resorted to hacking the data as a string. Thank you, so much, for your help.

Jerry

if anyone has a copy of enet_example.rar, please share.

Sure. How to move?

Since I here... is there an easy way to to separate a big float into a whole number and remainder?

srvaldez, Please forgive me. I am advanced in years and between poor eyesight and fat fingers, I can really muck things up. I meant simple "math" examples. Actually, I've had a great deal of success with this on my own. Only one I havent ironed out is how to handle the remainder after divi...