Looking for floppies

[farl]

Recently acquired the book " Learn Basic Now " by M Halvorson & D Rygmyr Microsoft Press 1989 ISBN 1-55615-240-X and during a recent move tragically the two disks for the book were damaged beyond repair.
Searched everywhere including Ebay Australia but no luck.The couple of copies I found had the floppies missing.
Microsoft Press could not assist either.
Any of you DOS enthusiasts have a copy and perhaps could mail them to me as my ISP email does not like file attachments over 1MB.

[h8or]

Why you need it?
You wil never use this knowledge in your professional carrer (i think).
Perhaps... Visual Basic, KBasic... but not QBasic.

[Buff]

I have to disagree.

QuickBasic was good for learning and I use much of the
same syntax in PowerBasic for windows.

I still sell some QuickBasic 4.5 programs, still doing modifications for a company out of Chicago in QuickBasic 4.0 @100/hr. and converted my accounting programs
from QuickBasic to PowerBasic for windows with ease.

Most all the file related code ported over unchanged except for periods in variable names and labels  which I changed to the underline character.

BTW PowerBasic is sooo much better than VB. Less expesive, small compiled code, NO RUNTIMES, and the BEST support.

[Guest]

First of all, do you already know BASIC, or are you just starting to learn?  If the latter, I would recommend that you learn QuickBASIC version 4.5 or higher instead.  The reason:

For BASIC:
 every line must start with a number
 you have to have one or more reference manuals handy all the time
 there is no real help in correcting what you do
 everytime you run a program, the BASIC interpreter has to compile each line, making the program run relatively slowly
  you have to get a special compiler to produce .exe programs.

For QuickBASIC:
 no line numbers are required
 you have all the BASIC words, including syntax, readily available
 as you write the code, it corrects any syntax mistakes you may have made, including misspelled commands
 QuickBASIC compiles each line as you write your code, so, when you run it, it runs around 100 times faster than the same program in BASIC
 a built-in compiler makes producing an .exe file very easy
 the editor is very much improved and easyier to use
 there are many, many more people using QuickBASIC then BASIC, so, help and knowledgeable folk are much easier to find for QuickBASIC
 
In a nutshell, QuickBASIC is a very much improved and user-friendly BASIC!  

Give up BASIC and concentrate on learning QuickBASIC.

[Dr_Davenstein]

Also, there are tons of libraries for Quickbasic 4.5.

There's a tutorial section with information on just about anything you could think of at QBNews.com.

[h8or]

I know qbasic 1.1, QB4.5, 7.1, Turbo Basic,  YaBasic, XBasic, VB, GWBasic, BWBasic (freedos), PeterBasic (FreeBSD), VBDOS 1.0 (Pro and Std), RapidQ, and other basics...
I can do almost "everything" with QB 7.1 + Future Library.
I´m learning C++. I´m just Beginning.
With GCC + Allegro Library, we can do more than "everything".

[]´s
Heitor