On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 12:29:47AM +1300, Graham Daniel wrote:
> Happy New year all,
>
> QBASIC was distributed with a supplemental disk set for MS-DOS 6.22,
> "Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Plus Enhanced Tools."
> as QBASIC must be loaded to run the *.bas programs, and QBASIC cannot
> compie any executable code, Microsoft probably wern't too fussed about
> degree of distribution.
> "QuickBasic" is the professional version and can compile the programs,
> the version I am familiar with will compile to run with brun40.exe or as
> a standalone *.exe
> regards,
> Graham Daniel.

FWIW, all that stuff (exclusive of QuickBasic, which
was in fact a commercial product) is still available on
Microsoft's ftp site. There are at least two files of interest:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/OLDDOS.EXE ("These
supplemental tools were included in previous versions of MS-DOS,
but not included in Windows 95 installations.")  The setup
script will install the commands in C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND (or,
as I set up my computer, to C:\LOUSYOS\COMMAND). These files
will include the QBASIC interpreter. You can also download
the file ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/SUP622.EXE,
which is intended to add the functionality lost from MS-DOS 5.0
back into MS-DOS 6.22. This file (but not the first) includes
the wonderful "GORILLA.BAS" game, as well as the old favorite
"DOSSHELL.EXE"/"DOSSHELL.COM". I just installed them on my
copy of Win95/OSR2.5 and it worked fine -- got me to feeling
all nostalgic...

--Bob

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