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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
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 12:54:56 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 22:30:17 EST
References: <1987Nov30.001912.20101@utstat.uucp>
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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

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