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In article <pharris.714289533@tellus> pharris@roseworthy.adelaide.edu.au (Paul Harris) writes:
>
>First, Thanks for the FAQ. It clears up a few things.
>
>If QBASIC is a cut down QuickBASIC why does QB read GWBASIC files but not
>QuickBASIC Files?
>

QBASIC can only save/read true ASCII files.  GWBASIC can save it's files
in either a tokenized format or as an ASCII file.  QBASIC (and Quickbasic
for that matter) can read the ASCII files, but not the Tokenized ones.

>I am fairly new to NEWS, but to add to the argument being COMP.LANG.BASIC
>may help the acceptance of BASIC as a "true" programming language now that
>"proper subroutine calls" and structured programming are supported. In my
>simple view (and I have done little FORTRAN lately) FORTRAN and BASIC have
>moved toward common ground in some ways.
>

>Regards, Paul Harris
>PHarris@Roseworthy.Adelaide.EDU.AU