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[URL="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/poll/index.cfm?action=showresults&pid=3228421"]A new poll into Operating System popularity by a British computer magazine[/URL] has revealed that an incredible 37 percent of respondents are still using Windows XP. That's more than Windows 7 which managed to woo 30 percent of the folk taking part, and Vista could only garner a pretty poor …

Sorry to be so out of date but I am upgrading and compling (Quick64) some GWbasic programs to run on 64bit machines.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 …