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echo: quik_bas
to: FANE
from: GREG EASTHOM
date: 1998-03-06 20:50:00
subject: Freeware BASIC?

FA>Is there a freeware BASIC compiler/interpreter for DOS out there?
FA>I don't know much about BASIC today. Is Power Basic or Quick Basic
FA>free or shareware, or commercial?
As far as I know...
QuickBasic 4.5 - Commercial, but no longer sold by M$oft.
        QBasic - Free (with DOS) smaller version of Quickbasic.
    Powerbasic - Commercial.
    Firstbasic - Shareware, smaller version of Powerbasic.
          ASIC - Shareware.
FA>Also, does anyone remember how to exit GW-BASIC?
Type SYSTEM
FA>What was the latest version of GW-BASIC?
The latest I've got is 3.22, dated 07-24-87.
 * SLMR 2.1a * 
--- Maximus 3.01
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* Origin: The BandMaster, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (1:153/7715)

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