Pete's QBASIC Site

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That's it really. If I just "rename", say, Sudoku.doc got from the internet to Sudoku.bas, when I open it with qb64, I get a lemon.

You can't just change the DOC extension to BAS! Is it BASIC code or just text? Got a link to it?

Did you try copying the DOC code text into QB64 IDE directly?

Hello burger 3337

I'm not sure how you mean 'copy the code directly into qb64 IDE' because the qb pagelet only recognises file names with a .bas extension.

If I've found a prog on the internet, e.g. http://www.petesqbsite.com/downloads/Sudoku.bas" target="_blank, the best i have done so far is to highlight it, copy it, paste it into a Windows Word page, save that as a .txt file (DOS version), open qbbasic then with the mouse pointer drag the txt's icon over the qb icon and when the ode appears, have qb save ir as a .bas file. Phew!

The file I mentioned will appear as the subject of my other post.....

thanks for listening
Ed

You can paste text directly into the QB64 IDE. Highlight and Copy the text from a file or web page and then Click Edit, Paste.

You cannot just change file name extensions and expect them to be converted to readable or loadable text.