Create a Program file to use with GWBasic from the index of programs below:

The links below display instruction files and program files. Any of them may be printed out using your browser. However, we also wish to copy the program files to our mass storage device so they may be run using the GWBasic interpreter. There are several ways to do this.

                        Use the Browser's Save as function

The easiest way to do this is to use the browser to save the program text to a program file on the disk using the file menu.
Click on the link, in the index below to bring up a program file.
Click on the File function in the menu at the top of the browser's display.
Scroll down to the Save Page as.... function.
    ( control+S serves selects this function on my browser)
Follow the Wizard to select a location on your disk and save the file as a text file (filename.txt)
GWBasic can run this program as it is (filename.txt); however, by convention, it should be renamed to (filename.bas).

To run the program, drag and drop the program file into a GWBasic.exe icon or to an shortcut to a GWBasic.exe icon.



              Copy the program text using the clip-board buffer


An alternate method to copy the code to a program file on the hard drive is to use the clipboard.
First prepare an empty plain text file on the hard drive using Notepad or some other plain text format.
Right click in the folder (or the desktp) where you want to create the file.
Rename the new text file.txt to a name of your choice with a dot bas extension.
Open it to receive the text you wish to copy from the browser by double clicking on the file's icon.

Click on the browser's display with the program's text, to change the focus to that page.
Type control+A (or select Edit/ Select all from the browser's function menu. The entire text should become highlighted.
Type control+C (or select Edit/ Copy from the menu, to copy the text into the Window's clip-board buffer.
Click on the open text file that was created earlier to place focus on it as an object.
Type control+V (or select Edit/ Paste from the menu in the text file to copy the text from the clipboard to the text file.
Close the text file with your selected name and dot bas extension and it is ready to be run under GWBasic.