Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Writing Programs in GW-BASIC

GW-BASIC provides a IDE (Integrated Development Environment ) where we can write ,edit, save ,load and execute  BASIC programs.

As you could see in above picture that there are some options at bottom of the picture that are F1 List, F2 Run, F3 Load,  F4 Save,  F5 Cont, F6 LPT1, F7 TRON, F8 TROFF,  F9 KEY AND F10 SCREEN.
Key
Command
Description
F1
LIST
Displays the program listing from RAM
F2
RUN
Execute the program if available
F3
LOAD
Read a program in to RAM from Disk
F4
SAVE
Write a program from RAM to disk
F5
CONT
Continues program after STOP command
F6
LPTI
Send the out put to the Printer
F7
TRON
Displays each line number when program is running
F8
TROFF
Shuts off the TRON function
F9
KEY
Used with different Key functions.
F10
SCREEN 0,0,0
Changes the screen with default settings.


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