Re: LOOKING for IBM BASIC (dos) Compiler manual OR Microsoft (dos) Basic (PSD) V7.x Language Reference manual(s) willing to buy, rent whatever

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:00:14 -0500,
ArarghMail610NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

>On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:08:53 GMT, "Tom Lake" <tlake@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>wrote:
>
>>>>Look at my message of the 25th.  I told you what to look for.
>>>
>>> Except he said that he was using run, not shell.
>>
>>That's irrelevant.  When BASIC starts (either from a SHELL or RUN),
>>it checks location &H50F.  If that location is 2, BASIC assumes it's
>>already being run in another copy of COMMAND.COM and refuses to
>>run putting up the error, "Cannot execute as a Child of Basic".

>You didn't say that, until now. :-)

Yes, he did - on Wed 25th October

I think there might be a News Group propogation problem and that both
you and Seeker can not see his post.