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From: rupp@tetra.UUCP (William L. Rupp)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Microsoft Basic Compatibility
Message-ID: <127@tetra.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 17:23:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 17:23:46 1986
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In article <978@houxa.UUCP> 593aac@houxa.UUCP (S.JOHNSON) writes:
>According to the MS Basic 2.0 documentation, old 1.0 programs with
>line numbers, etc. can be run under the new version. When I try
>to open the program I get a message saying that no application
>exists to open the file. When I give a specific "LOAD" command
>to MS basic, I get the message "Bad File Mode". Are MS Basic 1.0
>programs runnable with 2.0?
>	Steve Johnson

I, too, have tried to run a version 1.0 MS-BASIC program in the version
2.0 environment, without success.  I was unaware that the
documentation made the claim you mention, but mine is an early version,
so perhaps they changed it.  Seems to me that the two
versions are so different that they would have to be incompatible.