>At least with QuickBasic you had the choice of incorporating BRUN45.EXE
>and BRUN45.LIB into the .exe file. I remember that with Borland
>compilers you had to include lots of files such as
>CGA.BGI, HERC.BGI, EGAVGA.BGI together with any application that
>you wrote.
When I was running both TurboBasic and PowerBasic, neither
one required you to issue 'includes' to access standard video modes.
In over 12 years of running PowerBasic I've never had to link to an
external file. PowerBasic also compiles into fairly small
executable's, which are the only thing required unless there are
datafiles that the programmer required to be present. I never liked
the way QuickBasic required the distribution of it's external library
with the executable, especially since you never quite knew which
version of it a given program would require as things changed.
Jeff
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Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 13:35:31 BST