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WinXP runs 16 and 32 bit programs. Most of my extremely-valuable old programs, and the data banks associated with them, were written in GWBasic which will not run on Win7. Win7 does not have the drivers for some of my old printers, requiring the expense of buying new ones. If …

Sorry to be so out of date but I am upgrading and compling (Quick64) some GWbasic programs to run on 64bit machines. I need to find the presence or absence of a file. In a batch file it would program something like this ..., but I want this to execute …

I have a program in GW Basic to collect data, and it needs to be re-written as the data is increasing and would be best handled within a loop. I read in range of string data; "A", "B", .... within the loop. I then need to input, from the keyboard, …

When running GWBasic on one of my computers Alt/Enter works perfectly at minimising the Basic window, but on my other computer it has no effect at all. Both computers are running WinXP. How do I train Computer 2 to respond? Thanks

In a GWBasic program I wish to delete all files *.??8 in the working directory AND sub-directories. The 'Kill' command in GWBasic allows no switches and doesn't get into subdirectories. If I shell "del *.??8 /S" (or "del /S *.??8") I get the error message 'Invalid switch -/S'; even though …