POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : It's crazy, but I'm doing it... : Re: QBASIC 1.1 is on the disk Server Time
10 Aug 2024 15:22:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: QBASIC 1.1 is on the disk  
From: Ken
Date: 11 Jan 2000 21:44:19
Message: <387BEB1F.F9BB9C69@pacbell.net>
Matt Giwer wrote:
> 
> John VanSickle wrote:
> 
> > I'm using QuickBasic 1.1 (released in 1992).  As far as I know, even
> > if you're using GW-Basic you'll be in good shape.
> 
>     If folks take the time to read the Windows installation (98 at
> least, likely all of them) disk they will be directed to a goodies
> directory that is not installed with Windows. QBASIC 1.1 is there along
> with a few other "useless" things like filecomp and such. After all we
> wouldn't want to confuse people with technical things.

I never uninstalled it to begin with. I have had a .bas directory
off of my c: root ever since I started using a computer and that
is where qbasic.exe is stored. In fact the c:\bas directory is
still in my autoexec path statement :)

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