Post by thread:[OT] BasicA and GW-BASIC Fun Time

I would not think I need to touch BasicA or GW-Basic again. Today my wife asked me to help her on her Quantitative Epidemiological Methods assignment which uses a program called Epistat. Normally they use Stata SE. http://archives.math.utk.edu/software/msdos/statistics/epistat/.html I tried to use Qbasic and it did not work. So I tried BASICA and it worked but went to full screen. Then I tried GW-BASIC and it worked as she expected. Are you still using some utilities based on these oddies? Xiaofan

Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc <at> gmail.com> writes: > Are you still using some utilities based on these oddies? NO. Shudder. Besides that, there is a version of GW-Basic that runs on *nix (open source not emulated) Peter P.

Xiaofan Chen wrote: > I tried to use Qbasic and it did not work. So I tried BASICA and it worked > but went to full screen. Then I tried GW-BASIC and it worked as she > expected. > > Are you still using some utilities based on these oddies? I do use QBasic from time to time, still now. I find it so fast (though cumbersome at times) to do basic tasks. One has been recently "creating a stimulus file for MPLAB" since i could not find what I needed in the Stimulus Editor (and Help was not working :) Dario

The last time I brought out QBasic was to do receipt printer stuff, maybe 3-4 years ago. Before that it was to interface a text LCD with the printer port. -Adam On 10/27/07, Xiaofan Chen <spam_OUTxiaofancTakeThisOuTgmail.com> wrote: {Quote hidden}> I would not think I need to touch BasicA or GW-Basic again. > Today my wife asked me to help her on her Quantitative Epidemiological > Methods assignment which uses a program called Epistat. Normally they > use Stata SE. > http://archives.math.utk.edu/software/msdos/statistics/epistat/.html > > I tried to use Qbasic and it did not work. So I tried BASICA and it worked > but went to full screen. Then I tried GW-BASIC and it worked as she > expected. > > Are you still using some utilities based on these oddies? > > Xiaofan > -