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Does anyone know of a way to determine free disk space in Linux? I need to find out the free disk space of the drive when I specify a path. I'm porting one of my applications to Linux and this is the only hurdle stopping me. I use the Windows API call to get the free disk space on a particular drive ...

Thanks for sharing the calc example JackWebb, very nice.

I have a question though for any experts: Would any web hosting companies allow the use of an exe file as cgi? Maybe a Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

I have a good idea for a website using a pb exe for the cgi, but like freepurebasic says ...

Arctic Fox wrote:Why don't you use WindowBounds()?

Thanks! I was updating one of my old programs and maybe this command wasn't in pb at the time. Which version was this introduced?

The following code is taken from an example here on the forums by netmaestro. I just changed the openwindow to open at 400x400, the same as the restriction. The problem is, 400x400 is not the real restricted size, you can still make the window a bit smaller. Changing *mminfo\ptMinTrackSize\y = 400 ...

@whertz
Don't give up on Group Policy if you want to keep this simple. Just add a batch file into the Shutdown folder used by the MMC Group Policy snap-in. You will need admin privileges for MMC setup and to put the .BAT file in the proper folder but once there it can run a PB EXE which will not be ...

I just thought someone on the forum might have wanted to do this before and had some code handy.
ricardo posted a code example just 3 weeks ago:
http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=45779

Thanks Shardik. Seems simple enough, but this code would not wait until your program has ...

You could catch the #WM_QUERYENDSESSION message ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376890%28v=vs.85%29.aspx ), block shutting down, run the program you need and then shut down yourself.

Thanks c4s but that's beyond my capability. I just thought someone on the forum might have wanted to ...

Does anyone know how to run a program before windows shuts down? Like this tool does: http://www.fileware.com/products.htm#LastChance

I don't need to shut down windows myself, what I need is to detect when Windows shuts down, launch a program and when it is finished then carry on shutting windows ...

@MachineCode: I've come across this a few times, but the game I'm referring to is Age of Empires (the original). There is a registry setting for cd drive, but it is used for copy protection/loading data only. CD audio is always used from the first CD drive it comes across.

@Trond: Yes, I could do ...

Is it possible in PB to disable/enable a drive, the same was as if you right-click the device in device manager and disable it from there? Specifically I'm looking to disable a CD-ROM drive.

The reason why is I want to make a little launcher program as some old games are badly written and look for ...

Okay thanks.

Does anyone know how to do this:

Let's say I have the SHA1 hash values of a file that is split into two or more.
I also have the SHA1 value of the file when it is complete.
How can I make the SHA1 values of the split files match the hash I have of the complete file? Without using any SHA1 ...

Rook Zimbabwe wrote:Save yourself SERIOUS trouble and heartache and just quit messing in the System Folders!!!

Aww, you're no fun. I like messing with files in my System32 folder.

Nice solution GoodNPlenty, but does disabling redirection affect programs outside your program? If so this could be dangerous if something happened and your program crashed before it had time to re-enable redirection.