-=> Quoting Fane to All <=-
 Fa> Is there a freeware BASIC compiler/interpreter for DOS out there?  I
 Fa> don't know much about BASIC today.  Is Power Basic or Quick Basic free
 Fa> or shareware, or commercial? 
 Fa> Also, does anyone remember how to exit GW-BASIC?  I don't have the
 Fa> documentation.  What was the latest version of GW-BASIC? 
 YOu might want to check your system settings as your message
 here appeared as being from "Fane" which I suspect strongly is
 not your real name. Handles are generally not permitted in FIDO
 echos.
 PowerBASIC has released an earlier version of their product,
 version 2.x as a product called "FirstBASIC". It is shareware
 and you can obtain it from their website (www.powerbasic.com) or
 I expect from any of the standard software repositories. The
 current shipping version of PB is 3.5 and it is a commercial
 product.
 The standard DOS system from Microsoft came with QBASIC, a
 non-compiler version of BASIC.
 Generally speaking you exit from most BASIC's like GW-BASIC with
 the sommand "System". It's been quite a while since I worked in
 GW-BASIC but I seem to recall it used this "standard" method ;-)
 -- Regards --
    Sid Lee (FIDO - 1:134/122,  Internet - sidlee@agt.net)
 
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