Re: copying BIOS to a file

"Auric__" <not.my.real@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:fk99d9$n70$2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:07:02 GMT, I wrote:
>
>> All MS BASICs before VB default to single.
>
> Correction: All MS BASICs *that I've dealt with* prior to VB: BASIC.EXE,
> BASICA.EXE, GWBASIC.EXE, the various flavors of QB, and IIRC MS Amiga
> BASIC. I never played with their original Altair BASIC or derivatives.
> (Before my time.)
>
> -- 
> ...this has a happy ending, right?

That's what my masseuse gives me!

Altair BASIC, Commodore BASIC, TRS-80 Level II and Model III BASIC
all use single as the default.  It's fairly safe to assume that the MS 
versions of BASIC
from the 70's and 80's use single as a default.

Tom Lake