DOS ain't dead

Hello!
I succeeded to adapt some Delphi sources under Freepascal and under DOS and as a result I created the QR code generator for DOS. - QR Create

If you run QRCREATE without parameters the program ask you for some string which to convert to QR code. The output is in default saved to QRCODE.BMP
Or you can run QRCREATE /? to show the command line parameters.

The big advantage of this program is the Unicode awareness. You can use the non-english chars and my program silently converts them to Unicode in the UTF-8 coding so everything will work.

It was nice experience to use my phone with QR reader as a debug device for developping the DOS application

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DOS-u-akbar!

> Hello!
> I succeeded to adapt some Delphi sources under Freepascal and under DOS and
> as a result I created the QR code generator for DOS. -
> QR Create
>
> If you run QRCREATE without parameters the program ask you for some string
> which to convert to QR code. The output is in default saved to QRCODE.BMP
> Or you can run QRCREATE /? to show the command line parameters.
>
> The big advantage of this program is the Unicode awareness. You can use the
> non-english chars and my program silently converts them to Unicode in the
> UTF-8 coding so everything will work.
>
> It was nice experience to use my phone with QR reader as a debug device for
> developping the DOS application
Thanks, this is pretty neat. DOS and QR codes: uniting old and new technology!

> Hello!
> I succeeded to adapt some Delphi sources under Freepascal and under DOS and
> as a result I created the QR code generator for DOS. -
> QR Create
>
> If you run QRCREATE without parameters the program ask you for some string
> which to convert to QR code. The output is in default saved to QRCODE.BMP
> Or you can run QRCREATE /? to show the command line parameters.
>
> The big advantage of this program is the Unicode awareness. You can use the
> non-english chars and my program silently converts them to Unicode in the
> UTF-8 coding so everything will work.
>
> It was nice experience to use my phone with QR reader as a debug device for
> developping the DOS application


Now how about a QR reader for DOS ?

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> Now how about a QR reader for DOS ?
>
>

If you lend me a DOS based smartphone with camera...

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DOS-u-akbar!

Good work, Laaca..

I suggest you make a small improvement to the program:


If you run QRCREATE without parameters the program ask you for some string
which to convert to QR code... AND show "type QRCREATE /? for help" and QRCREATE´s version number.

Cool program, Laaca -- thanks!

Just a plain command-line "/?" switch to display some help is always useful.

Another minor suggestion: If the "KEY_TBL" subdirectory is not found, display some kind of error message to help avoid user confusion. As it is now, the program just exits quietly, without doing anything.

Thanks again....

- Doug B.

Thanks for your suggestions!
I created and uploaded the version 1.1

Except the ideas you mentioned I also added a command line parameter /G which switches off the ASCII -> unicode conversion but replaces the extended ASCII chars by "_". In this mode the .TBL filters in the \KEY_TBL\ subdirectory are not requiered.

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DOS-u-akbar!

Thanks again, Laaca - v1.1 is much more informative!