Re: running DOS programs - failure

"anon" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> "indigo" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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>> anon wrote:
>>> Couldn't it have been modified for Basic (there seems to be little
>>> difference [I/O, maybe nested loops]) easier than essentially
>>> rewriting in C++?
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>> Dunno, the software guy was given his choice on what language to port it 
>> too
>> and that's what he picked. I do have another program written in basic,
>> haven't tried to run it on XP so I don't know if it'll work or not.
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> Gees, I had not thought of that - I just tested my old basic program and 
> it worked perfectly! Thank goodness.
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The basic program I have is QBASIC - and it does run fine.

Another poster mentioned QuickBasic vs.: qbasic.

I think I tried QuickBasic on  w95/w98 computers and it did not run 
satisfactorily.

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>>> XP's lack of DOS is sc****ing up some of my legacy programs - they
>>> won't run in XPs emulation mode.
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>> Welcome to my world!
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