How can I exit Microsoft GW-BASIC, IBM BASICA, or other similar old dialects of BASIC?
Microsoft BASIC , GW-BASIC and BASICA all use a prompt that looks like this: I can't figure out how to exit any of these. Typing END does not exit them. EXIT , QUIT , Q , Ctrl+C , and everything else that I can think of also does not work. I'm sure there's a way to do this. I can't imagine everyone who used BASICA on DOS had to restart their machine every single time they wanted to exit the development environment. So, how do I exit from the old BASIC editor prompt? Jeff Zeitlin GWBASIC and its clones (e.g., IBM's BASIC and BASICA) exited to the DOS prompt with the command system . Although