Running A Basic Program On Another Diskette; With One Diskette Drive - IBM 5150 Manual To Operations

6 Other service
This choice lets you describe the kind of
communication your IBM Personal Computer will
set up. You do this if the choices that were made in
the COMM program are not correct for your case.
Then you can start the communications session using
the characteristics you've described.
7 End program
This option lets you end the COMM program and go
back to BASIC. You will then see the BASIC prompt,
Ok.
Running a BASIC Program on Another Diskette
For this example, let's assume that the BASIC program
you want to run is called BOWLING and it's not on
your DOS Diskette.
Let's assume too, that BOWLING is a Disk BASIC
program (that is, it doesn't use the extended features
of Advanced BASIC).
With
One Diskette Drive
1
When you see the DOS prompt, It>, start Disk BASIC
by typing:
basic
and press the En ter key.
2
The BASIC prompt. Ok, appears.
Remove your DOS Diskette from drive A:.
3
Insert the diskette that contains the file BOWLING into
drive A:.
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