Subj : GWBASIC
To   : ED VANCE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sat Nov 08 2025 10:41:08

> Rob and Mike, The first DOS PC I had my hands on at work had GWBASIC.
> It was made by ITT ( I think) and had DOS  v 2.11 on it.
> There was a bunch of books for that computer, and Me using a Commodore 64 just
> had to look through those books to see what I could learn about DOS 2.11 .

I suspect that GWBASIC was more prominent that we realized, and maybe
wasn't replaced until MS came up with their own.  IIRC, at some point, I
quit finding GWBASIC in the DOS directory and instead found BASICA (??).

> On my XP box if I need to do fancy stuff in a text file I use Open Office 4.1.

OpenOffice and its derivative, LibreOffice, are both pretty good at most
things.  Just a couple of things, like changing page headers at section
breaks, are a real PITA compared to Word.

> .
> I mostly use Wordpad instead of Notepad so I can write sections in a different
> size font or to underline some parts of what I am writing.

I remember Wordpad and sometimes found it easier to use than Word, when it
was available.  IIRC, on our work machines (which used Win versions released
after XP), it wasn't there.

Notepad was good for text but, for some things, we were able to install a
program called Notepad++ which worked better with larger files and, IIRC,
preserving the original formatting vs. Notepad.  I used both a whole lot,
depending on what I was working with.

> Just thought Iwould jump in and comment.

Welcome!  ;)

Mike


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