Installation of PB Ver 3.5

[John Romano]

Received the PB for DOS package today and made bakups of all 4
floppies. Three of the disks are numbered 1of3,2of3&3of3.

Is the entire program on the firsr disk (1 of 3)
@ 1,197,394 bytes and is it necessary to load in the other two
since I have the two manuals


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[Tom Hanlin]

If the second two disks just contain .PDF files, they're the manuals
in Adobe Acrobat format, and you don't need them to install PB/DOS.


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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[John Romano]

Thanks Tom I'm up and running and so far so good. Is there a way
to achieve a larger viewing area on my 17" screen,presently my
monitor is at 800x600.

See page 11 of "Users Guide" what does set VGA=YES used for?




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[Matthew Berg]

Larger viewing area? Do you mean more rows in the "DOS window"? If so, try typing the following at the DOS prompt:

MODE CON: LINES=[i]xx[/i]

where xx is 25, 43 or 50. In the PB/DOS IDE, open the menu Options|Environment and set the Screen Size setting to 43/50 to use the larger number of lines when the IDE is running.

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If you try to make something idiot-proof, someone will invent a better idiot.

[Tom Hanlin]

SET VGA=YES tells the compiler that you've got at least a VGA display.
You only need to use this if the compiler can't detect as much by
itself-- which is extremely unlikely, unless you're using one of the
more oddball computers of vintage circa 1985.

Matthew's suggestions look good to me. Bear in mind that the PB/DOS
IDE is a console application and is not as flexible, in some ways,
as a GUI design. Of course, you don't have to use the PB/DOS IDE if
you prefer another editor. The command-line compiler, PBC.EXE, will
work on any text file.


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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff