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From: Jim Johnson
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:19

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In a message dated Wed 26 Aug 92 16:34, Alan.holmes@brunel.ac.uk (alan J Ho
wrote:

 AJH> I have an IBM clone with a hard disc.
 AJH> I have tried to run basica from disc,
 AJH> the only responce I get is:-
 AJH> divide overflow
 AJH> What am I doing wrong? 

IBM's BASICA  will only run on an IBM machine.  IBM machines include a ROM
with a very limited version of BASIC.  BASICA expects to find that ROM to
run the core BASIC functions.  To run the BASIC interpreter on a clone, you
must use GWBASIC or some other self contained interpreter.

If you want a BASIC interpreter, I suggest buying QBasic - it is a striped
version of MicroSoft's QuickBASIC compiler and works quite well.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Jim Johnson-
*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***

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