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Subject: Stepper motor controller and QuickBasic 4.0
Message-ID: <2665.26cfae61@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 20 Aug 90 09:33:21 GMT
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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I have been trying to program a Metrabyte MSTEP5 stepper motor control
card using Microsoft QuickBasic 4.0, but have had a problem with getting
the driver, MSTEP.BIN, to listen to the BASIC correctly. I believe that
the problem lies in the fact that QB 4 passes real values in an IEEE
format, while the driver expects it to be in Microsoft Binary Format.
While this can be gotten around with difficulty by using a BASIC conversion
routine, a more elegant solution would be to rewrite the driver program
to suit.

What I would like to know is, has anyone confronted this problem before,
and if so, does anyone have a modified version of the driver routine?

Any hints or suggestions emailed to the address below would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks.

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