I knew you'd say that!

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I'll keep asking you know.

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Oh, and when?

Guess you got bored of asking

For 1 to ∞
  PRINT "Where?"
  IF answer <> ""
   THEN 
     PRINT "Thanks!"
     END
  END IF
REPEAT

computer's never get bored

Just out of curiosity - how would you run such a simple bit of programming on a windows pc Chris? I remember using something similar on my Commodore Vic 20 over 20 ( that long!! ) years ago!

Yeah, I did similar stuff on my Amstad...6 hours programing to create a very, very basic game! (and if you left out even one dot it would say syntax error, after six hours typing in the program I would do more than pull my hair out! )

Could you do it in Dos mode? I would be to scared to try anything on a modern computer! At least with my old one if you messed up you could just switch it straight off and it would be fine when you turned it back on!

Hehehehehehehe - those were the days eh sniffy?

It should read Amstrad but I can't edit my posts for some reason....modern computers!!

Ohh I just glipsed the edit facility as I posted then it vanished a second later...think someone is having games with me...

That should have said playing....****** edit facility!

Did they glipse you having games?

It was'nt me this time Val!!!
i'm saying nothing

Eh up humus - how's ya dooin'?

OK but need a break away somewhere where i wont get picked on or shoved down a spiral stircase into a gas filled Hermitage

How's about another trip to Yorkshire then?

A small low ceiling'ed spiral stircase or up a flippin tall tower with a ruddy great crack in it from top to bottom (and no middle )

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Originally posted by phil.b:
How's about another trip to Yorkshire then?

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Feeling ill just thinking of towers

DON'T LOOK DOWN HUMUS!!!!

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Originally posted by phil.b:
_DON'T LOOK DOWN HUMUS!!!!_

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I fee sick got to go for a lie down see you all tommorrow.
Phil u got mail, in a min.
NN all.

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Originally posted by phil.b:
Just out of curiosity - how would you run such a simple bit of programming on a windows pc Chris? I remember using something similar on my Commodore Vic 20 over 20 ( that long!! ) years ago!

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Asside from the fact it would need a bit of tweaking to actaully run, I don't know!
In DOS that would work with very little modifications/aditions in QBASIC (where I "learned" to program). In windows you need about a dozen pages to define the window you want, etc before you actually get to it doing stuff and then a similar amount of stuff after the crucial bit. Perhaps you can do simple stuff in a java aplet?

a websearch provided this very readable advice however

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A Babelfish translation from German
The point of view keeps itself persistent that DOS programs do not run under Windows XP. However the difference to earlier Windows versions is not very large, so that you can quite induce MSDOS program to the work. If the standard attitudes do not function correctly, you can adapt the attitudes over the dialog field "characteristics" to the executable file. Contrary to Windows 9x-Betriebssystemen Windows XP contains however no material modem DOS environment, since it is not based on the MSDOS core. If on the executable file for a DOS program doubleclicked you, for which no special characteristics were intended, it uses the file "_ default.pif", which is in the Windows listing of your non removable disk, normally thus C:\Windows. A PIF file (PIF = program information file) is the linkage for a DOS program, with which a suitable environment is furnished, in which it run can. If you adapt now the characteristics of a DOS program, then you change only the PIF file and not those the executable file of an application. So you must proceed In order to specify that before the start of the program an auto-EXEC asking and a Config.sys file are to be implemented, it clicks you on register register "program" on the switching surface "extended", and enters you then in the text fields the paths to the appropriate files. According to standard all programs use Autoexec.nt and Config.nt, which are both in the file %SystemRoot%\System32. In order to change the basic adjustments for all applications of MSDOS, you can work on these files with a text editor. If you would like that application keeps running also if it is not in the foreground, then you must always activate "the option" in register "other" with the entry "background suspending". If the program uses a combination of keys of Windows, Windows has priority, and you will not be able to use this combination of keys in application. If your application is to receive priority with a certain combination of keys, then you remove on the register map "other" under "access keys from Windows" for the hooks forwards from the appropriate control small box before combination of keys. Occasionally programs fall, as soon as the Windows Bildschirmschoner switches itself on. In order to go around, you deactivated in register "other" under "foreground" the entry "Bildschirmschoner permit". Although for MS-DOS no real compatibility mode exists, finds you a register "compatibility" contains. When useful that proves, if a DOS program under Windows 9x worked well, under Windows XP however not. In the register "memory" can assign you to application a certain quantity of different storage types, for example conventionally, XMS, EMS. Frequently DOS programs control the storage capacity during the start around ability to work to guarantee. Since Windows XP assigns however the storage location to each program depending upon need, the dispatching of a certain memory quantity can provide for functioning the respective program.

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Right then Chris - so is it possible without learning some sort of germanic script?

Your guess is as good as mine, I'm afraid

I thought you were clever??