Best NNTP group for FreeBasic questions?

Peter Knutsen

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Jun 19, 2008, 11:43:41 PM6/19/08

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I've just started using FreeBasic, and I have a bunch of problems,
questions and annoyances.

Is this newsgroup the best place for questions about FreeBasic, or is
there another one? Either on Usenet or on some specialized NNTP server,
since I'd *really* like to avoid having to use a WWW-based forum.

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Peter Knutsen
sagatafl.org

Tom Lake

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Jun 20, 2008, 8:04:12 AM6/20/08

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"Peter Knutsen" <pe...@sagatafl.invalid> wrote in message
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The best place is the FreeBASIC forum. Even though it's Web-based, it
really *is* the one and only definitive group.

http://www.freebasic.net/forum/

Tom Lake

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Peter Knutsen

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Jun 20, 2008, 11:34:09 AM6/20/08

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Tom Lake wrote:
> The best place is the FreeBASIC forum. Even though it's Web-based, it
> really *is* the one and only definitive group.
>
> http://www.freebasic.net/forum/

That's not good.

But thanks anyway. I've realized that FreeBASIC has one thing that
Visual Basic lacks (apart from the VB I bought being 10 years old and
probably not installable under Win XP at all), a built-in
text-input/output concole, so I'll probably have to try to endure the
web-forum after all.

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Peter Knutsen
sagatafl.org

Tom Lake

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Jun 20, 2008, 2:00:02 PM6/20/08

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"Peter Knutsen" <pe...@sagatafl.invalid> wrote in message

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If you don't mind my asking, *Why* are you so down on Web-based
forums (fora?)

Auric__

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Jun 20, 2008, 2:31:35 PM6/20/08

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Some people just don't like them, for whatever reason. (I'm not terribly
fond of them, but I still use some.)

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Auric__

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Jun 20, 2008, 2:35:59 PM6/20/08

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You could ask here or alt.lang.basic, but I don't think anyone in either
place specializes in FB. (I know a bit, but not much.)

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Danger! Human at keyboard!

Peter Knutsen

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Jun 21, 2008, 8:44:23 AM6/21/08

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Tom Lake wrote:
> "Peter Knutsen" <pe...@sagatafl.invalid> wrote in message

>> That's not good.
>>
>> But thanks anyway. I've realized that FreeBASIC has one thing that
>> Visual Basic lacks (apart from the VB I bought being 10 years old and
>> probably not installable under Win XP at all), a built-in
>> text-input/output concole, so I'll probably have to try to endure the
>> web-forum after all.
>
> If you don't mind my asking, *Why* are you so down on Web-based
> forums (fora?)

Slow, lack of features, slow, lack of features, and last but not least:
slow.

If I want to go to an NNTP group, I just open Mozilla ThunderBird and
I'm there, able to get to any Usenet group I wish, or any non-Usenet
NNTP-server that I wish, within 2 seconds. Never any need to log in or
verify my identity. I can control how the text is displayed (text size),
and my sig is always displayed (I have so far not been able to get the
FB forums to display the sig that I've told them I'd like to have
displayed). Also, Thunderbird keeps track of which posts I've already
read, whereas in a web-forum I have to do that myslf, and never versions
even keep track of which posts I've replied to. NNTP posts can also
always be shown in threaded mode, so that I can skip an entire branch if
it veers off-topic.

In short, web fora are painfully stupid, and I only use them when I have to.

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Peter Knutsen
sagatafl.org

Derek

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Jun 22, 2008, 2:49:45 AM6/22/08

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I've got VBDOS, VB3 and VB6 installed under Windows XP and they are
all working on the same computer without any trouble.

Cheers

Derek