Conversion from Binary Format

[cs41]

Hi all,

I am new to this forum, but have used QB4.5 a lot in the past.
I am a convert to LINUX for quite a few years now  and want to reuse some of my old QB45 programs.
I have installed QB64 in my MINT 19.1 systems and runs well so far... however some of my old QB45 programs don't want to load. Others run fine so guess some were staved in Binary format  ..

Following error msg>>>    Unfortunately seems conversion utility doesn't run ??
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QuickBasic 4.5 binary format detected  ....  Convert to plain text

Error launching conversion utility
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Any suggestions welcomed.

Thanks in advance

Colin S

[FellippeHeitor]

This is a known bug in macOS and Linux versions of QB64, which I only found out about after releasing version 1.3, which is why we don’t have a fix yet (it’s a two character addition to qb64.bas, but I haven’t gotten around to releasing it yet). A temporary workaround for me on the Mac was to make my qb64 folder part of the system “path”, which (I think) will also solve the issue temporarily on Linux.

[cs41]

Thanks for quick reply...
Probably my best option right now is to use DOSBOX and install QB 4.5 and convert there.
Thanks again
cs.