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- From: zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
- Subject: Re: BASIC development
- Message-ID: <wDNauB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 13:47:31 CST
- References: <1992Nov15.000911.29155@fullfeed.fullfeed.com>
- Reply-To: srcsip!tcscs!zeta
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
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- rat@fullfeed.fullfeed.com (David Douthitt) writes:
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- >
- > 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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