Qbasic

[tahquitz]

I bought a beginners programming book that teaches Qbasic.
The author states that Qbasic can be run from DOS ver5.0 or later by typing Qbasic at the dos prompt. I am running windows 95 and 98 and when I go to start, programs, MS-Dos Prompt and type Qbasic it tells me bad command. I change directories to C:\ and that still does not work I tried cd dos but it tells me directory not found. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks

[DrZaius]

Hi tahquitz,

The Qbasic files should be on the Windows 98 CD under:

Setup\Tools\Oldmsdos

There should be a Qbasic.exe and Qbasic.hlp.

Hope that helps.

[RJ]

tahquitz, because you have Win9x you don't have the C:\DOS directory anymore. All dos programs are in C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.
After you got the qbasic files as described by DrZaius put them in the command folder.

If you want to start it from the dos box from whereever you are, add the path to C:\Windows\command in autoexec.bat.

You also can create a shortcut to qbasic.exe.

RJ

[tahquitz]

Thank you DrZaius for the information, and also to you RJ I was wondering if I had to keep running qbasic from the win98 cd.

[RJ]

That would be very funny ;)
Alright, then I wish you Happy Coding !

RJ