Important Notice

The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software, purely for historical purposes. If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

Use to clear memory and load an existing program from disk.
┌──────────Open Program───────────┐ To load a program from
│                                 │ the current directory:
│ File Name: ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ◄─────────────────┐
│                                 │     │
│ C:MYPROGS ◄──current directory │   Type a file name
│                                 │   here, or
│      Files          Dirs/Drives │
│ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒    ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │   Select a file
│ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒    ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │   name here.
│ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒    ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │     │
│        ▲                        │     │
│        └──────────────────────────────┘
└─────────────────────────────────┘   Then choose <OK>.
 
The Dirs/Drives box provides access to other directories.
Note that the current directory for the Open Program
command can vary from the current DOS directory used
by other QuickBASIC commands.
 
To open a program in another directory
┌──────────Open Program───────────┐
│                                 │   Type a directory
│ File Name: ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ◄────────────── and file name here,
│                                 │   or
│ C:XXXX ◄──current directory    │
│                                 │
│      Files         Dirs/Drives  │
│ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒   ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ◄─── Select a directory
│ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒   ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒  │   name here, then
│ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒   ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒  │   select a file name
│        ▲                        │   here.
│        └──────────────────────────────┘
└─────────────────────────────────┘   Then choose <OK>
 
To look at the contents of other directories
┌──────────Open Program───────────┐
│                                 │  Type a wildcard
│ File Name: ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ◄───────────── file name (such as
│                                 │  *.BAS or *.BI) here.
│ C:XXXX ◄──current directory    │
│                                 │
│      Files         Dirs/Drives  │     Select a directory
│ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒   ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ◄───── name here.
│ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒   ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒  │
│ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒   ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒  │     Look at the file
│        ▲                        │     names here.
│        └───────────────────────────────┘
└─────────────────────────────────┘ Then choose <Cancel>.