{By the way, this was crossposted to a number of non-Basic newsgroups,
so I have set the Follow-Up to alt.lang.basic.compiler, the ng I am
posting this reply form.}

On Sat, 24 May 2003, John Leppart wrote:

> [most dnipped for space]

> I would get a Quick Basic textbook, as QBasic and Quick Basic are the same
> except for no compiler with QBasic. You can worry about that
> after you have learned a bit.

    However, QBasic does have some resource limits that QuickBasic does
not.  The online help for QBasic suggests using QuickBasic if you want
to buid programs over 160K in size (except that, of course, Microsoft
quit selling QuickBasic years ago).

-- 
Paul Bartlett
bartlett at smart.net
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