help using BASIC (gwbasic, basica or qbasic)

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From: George Fadel
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 12:37

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-I ran into a strange problem with an old basic program.  The program attempts to read from a random access file opened with the following statement:
OPEN,"XXXXXXX.XXX" as #1 LEN=200
The program works on a pc clone running DOS 5.0.  It supposedly ran under DOS 3.2
I brought it to my PC running DOS 4.02?  and keep getting an error message.  It does not seem to like the reclen greater than 128.  
Does anyone have a clue as to why this is happening?  I tried to run the program
with the three basic interpreters mentioned earlier, but to no avail.

Georges M. Fadel 
Clemson University

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From: gfadel@eng.clemson.edu (George Fadel)
Subject: help using BASIC (gwbasic, basica or qbasic)
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