I do not no anything about programming, so I posted up a messege awhile back to see what would be a good beginning. Someone replied with Qbasic, what I want to know is, what kinds of things can I do with Qbasic? And then what would be the next step?

In general a lot of dos programming, but fairly easy to learn so it's good for a beginner. All versions of MS dos and most versions of windows come with one form or another of either basic or qbasic type of interpreter. If you want to build EXEs, you'll need a compiler.

jason, qbasic as mentioned before is simple to learn. to find out what you can do there is excelent help coming with qbasic with a lot of emaples. if you want to write macros (ms office) you will find a lot of commands with visualbasic (VB) similar to qbasic. What to do next depends on you. maybe you have heard about java or perl. both of them are free and there are a lot of examples to. the choice and what to do next depends on what you want to do your program. klaus

a simple program would be moving a text file from one place to another :- dim file1 as string dim file2 as string file1="c:\temp.txt" file2="c:\temp\temp.txt" name file1 as file2 or a more advanced program would be :- (this will be print contents of file to screen) dim file1 as string dim file2 as string file1="c:\temp.txt" open file1 for input as #1 do while not EOF line input #1, rec$ print rec$ loop close #1