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These pages should give answers to the most commonly asked questions about programming in BASIC, and should be a source of ideas and tricks for BASIC programmers. They serve as a FAQ-file for the newsgroup comp.lang.basic.misc.

Currently the following items are available, but I count on your contributions to expand this list:

Answers to some Frequently Asked Questions:
- How To Make An EXE-File?
- How To Do Mouse Support?
- How To Read A Directory From Disk?
- How To Display A BMP- or GIF-File?
- How To Trap CRTL-BREAK And CRTL-ALT-DEL?
- How To Return An Errorlevel From Your Program?
- How To Use Your SoundBlaster?
- How To Read A .DBF-File?
- How To Control COM3?
- How To Convert A Number To Binary And Extract A Bit From It?
- How To Do Accurate Timing In BASIC?
- How To Do CRC-Checking?
- How To Reboot The Computer From Within A BASIC Program?
- How To Print Graphics With BASIC?
- How To Do Controlled Text Input in BASIC?
- How To Read From And Write To The Text Screen Directly?
- How To Convert an Interpreted BASIC File to an ASCII Format File?
Overview of available compilers and interpreters [shareware/commercial]
List of FTP-servers with share-/freeware BASIC libraries
Brief history of the development of the BASIC language
List of other pages on BASIC.

Please send any contributions to W.M.BergmannTiest@fys.ruu.nl