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Q27921: BASIC 6.00 & 7.00 Can’t Make Family API (Bound) Applications

Article: Q27921
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 6.00 6.00b 7.00 | 6.00 6.00b 7.00
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 22-JAN-1990

Microsoft BASIC Compiler Versions 6.00 and 6.00b and Microsoft BASIC
Professional Development System (PDS) Version 7.00 for MS OS/2 cannot
create "bound" applications (Family API applications). (A given bound
EXE application can run under OS/2 protected mode, OS/2 real mode,
and/or MS-DOS.) The compiler can only create EXE files that run under
either OS/2 protected mode or real mode but not both. ("Real mode"
includes both the DOS 3.x-compatibility box in OS/2, and straight
MS-DOS.)

To have the functionality of BASIC, the BASIC run-time module contains
routines that are outside OS/2's Family API (Applications Programming
Interface).

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