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Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC?

From	"Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.powerbasic
Subject	Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC?
Date	2012-02-07 19:06 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Antti J Ylikoski wrote:

> I have a large legacy program of the QBASIC era and style -- the program 
> is so old that it even has line numbers in the style of the original 
> Dartmouth BASIC.  The program is compatible with the old QBASIC.

It was probably written for GW-BASIC.

> Can this program be compiled with a suitable switch with the PowerBASIC, 
> or easily be converted to PowerBASIC, or something corresponding?  I 
> will immediately purchase the PowerBASIC if I can use it for this legacy 
> program of mine.

PowerBASIC for DOS may or may not be able to compile it unchanged. PowerBASIC 
Console Compiler would likely need *some* changes; PowerBASIC for Windows 
would likely need *lots* of changes.

As much as I like PowerBASIC, I recommend trying FreeBASIC instead:
  http://www.freebasic.net/

FreeBASIC will probably be able to compile your program as-is using this 
command:
  fbc -lang qb sourcefile.bas
If it can't compile, you should get some meaningful error messages telling 
you what to do.

-- 
How about NO!?

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Legacy program for PowerBASIC? Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-02-07 20:27 +0200
  Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-02-07 19:06 +0000
  Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? Bob Zale <noreply@powerbasic.com> - 2012-02-13 03:10 -0800
    Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-02-13 20:26 +0200
      Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? Bob Zale <noreply@powerbasic.com> - 2012-02-13 10:36 -0800
      Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? Olav <my.email.goes.here@there.tt> - 2012-02-14 14:28 +0100
        Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-02-14 13:55 +0000
          Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? Basic Guy <Basic@Guy.com> - 2012-02-14 09:54 -0500
            Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-02-14 15:24 +0000
          Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-02-14 15:47 +0000
            Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-02-14 17:58 +0200
              Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? Bob Zale <noreply@powerbasic.com> - 2012-02-15 03:58 -0800
            Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? Bob Zale <noreply@powerbasic.com> - 2012-02-15 04:15 -0800
              Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-02-15 14:08 +0000
                Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? Bob Zale <noreply@powerbasic.com> - 2012-02-15 08:43 -0800
                Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-03-03 09:46 +0200
        Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-02-14 17:53 +0200

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