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From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Microsoft Basic Compatibility
Message-ID: <370@gould9.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 11:33:48 EST
Article-I.D.: gould9.370
Posted: Mon Mar 10 11:33:48 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Mar-86 22:02:37 EST
References: <978@houxa.UUCP> <127@tetra.UUCP>
Organization: CACI, Inc. -- La Jolla, Calif.
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Summary: try text

In article <127@tetra.UUCP>, rupp@tetra.UUCP (William L. Rupp) writes:
> 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.
> I, too, have tried to run a version 1.0 MS-BASIC program in the version
> 2.0 environment, without success.  

If you still have a copy of 1.0, load the program and then re-save it as
text.  You should be able to load it just hunky-dory.

Microsoft makes no guarantees about protected mode, and I'm not sure
about compressed mode.  I think they're only promising source code
compatibility.
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