Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: editing IBM BASIC programs Message-ID: <8043@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 12:54:56 EST Article-I.D.: steinmet.8043 Posted: Tue Dec 1 12:54:56 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 22:30:17 EST References: <1987Nov30.001912.20101@utstat.uucp> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Distribution: na Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 19 In article <1987Nov30.001912.20101@utstat.uucp> anthony@utstat.uucp (Anthony Ayiomamitis) writes: | | Can someone advise me how I can edit an IBM BASIC program using a | word processor (such as WordPerfect)? As you know, when using the SAVE command, | the disk file is NOT ASCII. save file,a | Also, how does one issue a DOS command through BASIC? For example, if | I want to issue the "timer/s" command during the execution of my program, how | do I accomplish this? shell("dir") ^^^ string constant or variable -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me