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rat@fullfeed.fullfeed.com (David Douthitt) writes:

> 
> Someone asked about BASIC development - there are several programs that
> have been written in BASIC.  There was one (small) Fidonet utility that
> came with BASIC source (created a message or packet I think).
> 
> Also, a Fidonet program called DoveMail (written by Jack Decker) was
> written in QuickBasic, I believe.  Dovemail allows you to send a batched
> Usenet news bundle with a Fidonet archive using Fidonet.
> 
> Also, Microsoft is due to come out with Visual BASIC for DOS or something,
> if they havent already...
> 
When I was digging into QWK packets, some of the reference numbers and other
data bits were quick basic (?) types of data.  I didn't understand at first
how it was only a quickbasic type of number, and I still don't, but that would
seem to imply that the person who created (or team of people) used basic
to initially create the QWK method for offline reading of mail and such.



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