593aac@houxa.UUCP (S.JOHNSON) (03/06/86)
As a novice reader of this newsgroup, I have to hope this topic hasn't been beaten to death already.... According to the MS Basic 2.0 documentation, old 1.0 programs with line numbers, etc. can be run under the new version. When I try to open the program I get a message saying that no application exists to open the file. When I give a specific "LOAD" command to MS basic, I get the message "Bad File Mode". Are MS Basic 1.0 programs runnable with 2.0? The file owner and file type associated with the old program are different than those for a newly created test program. Anybody know how to save the program? Steve Johnson
rupp@tetra.UUCP (William L. Rupp) (03/08/86)
In article <978@houxa.UUCP> 593aac@houxa.UUCP (S.JOHNSON) writes: >According to the MS Basic 2.0 documentation, old 1.0 programs with >line numbers, etc. can be run under the new version. When I try >to open the program I get a message saying that no application >exists to open the file. When I give a specific "LOAD" command >to MS basic, I get the message "Bad File Mode". Are MS Basic 1.0 >programs runnable with 2.0? > Steve Johnson I, too, have tried to run a version 1.0 MS-BASIC program in the version 2.0 environment, without success. I was unaware that the documentation made the claim you mention, but mine is an early version, so perhaps they changed it. Seems to me that the two versions are so different that they would have to be incompatible.
jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) (03/08/86)
In article <127@tetra.UUCP> rupp@tetra.UUCP (William L. rupp) writes: >In article <978@houxa.UUCP> 593aac@houxa.UUCP (S.JOHNSON) writes: >>According to the MS Basic 2.0 documentation, old 1.0 programs with >>line numbers, etc. can be run under the new version. When I try >>to open the program I get a message saying that no application >>exists to open the file. When I give a specific "LOAD" command >>to MS basic, I get the message "Bad File Mode". Are MS Basic 1.0 >>programs runnable with 2.0? >> Steve Johnson > >I, too, have tried to run a version 1.0 MS-BASIC program in the version >2.0 environment, without success. I was unaware that the >documentation made the claim you mention, but mine is an early version, >so perhaps they changed it. Seems to me that the two >versions are so different that they would have to be incompatible. If the MS Basic 1.0 Program was saved AS TEXT ONLY it can be loaded into MS BASIC 2.0 and run. It can then be saved compressed mode and can be double-clicked. -- Jim Budler Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (408) 749-5806 Usenet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb Compuserve: 72415,1200
lantz@dartvax.UUCP (Bob Lantz) (03/10/86)
MS-BASIC 2.0 comes in two configurations, supporting bcd and binary math, respectively. If *both* are on the desktop and an MS-BASIC 1.0 document is opened from the finder, the 'correct' version of MS-BASIC 2.0 will start up and load the document. Alternately, the bcd ($) configuration of 2.0 will open up 1.0 documents directly. I believe that the problem only occurs with compressed files. TEXT files should be compatible across all versions and configurations. -Bob (lantz@dartvax)
joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) (03/10/86)
In article <127@tetra.UUCP>, rupp@tetra.UUCP (William L. Rupp) writes: > In article <978@houxa.UUCP> 593aac@houxa.UUCP (S.JOHNSON) writes: > >According to the MS Basic 2.0 documentation, old 1.0 programs with > >line numbers, etc. can be run under the new version. > I, too, have tried to run a version 1.0 MS-BASIC program in the version > 2.0 environment, without success. If you still have a copy of 1.0, load the program and then re-save it as text. You should be able to load it just hunky-dory. Microsoft makes no guarantees about protected mode, and I'm not sure about compressed mode. I think they're only promising source code compatibility. -- Joel West (619) 457-9681 CACI, Inc. Federal, 3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct., La Jolla, CA 92037 {cbosgd,ihnp4,pyramid,sdcsvax,ucla-cs}!gould9!joel gould9!joel@nosc.ARPA