Re: need to run qbasic program on Debian Linux

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

K. Matthew Victor said:
> Greetings, I need to find out how one would go about running a program
> that was written in qbasic on a linux machine. Any suggestions? (please
> restrain the flames, i realize many of you are experts in programing etc..
> I am not, and new to attempting to run win. stuff in linux.
> Usually I just use the native Linux software, but this it aerodynamic
> modeling software that one needs first to use before trying to write a GNU
> version). matt

been a long time since I used DOS..but wasn't qbasic a DOS based
program? If so dosemu should do the trick, you'll still need the qbasic
program to execute the code, but it should run on top of dosemu.

I haven't used dosemu probably since 1998, I think it comes with
freedos these days..

nate