Installing q-basic on Fedora os.

[James ward]

Hello , i use Q-basic in my programming cource at college and i thought it'd be a good idea to install QBASIC on my laptop , an acer aspire one that came pre loaded with linpus linux lite a variant of fedora 8 , In any case i read some guides to see if it could be done and sure enough it could so i installed a program called dosbox and got a file called "olddos" all the steps in the guide worked for a while but my problems are , A) when mounting a c drive i cant put a file acces path of anything other than /home/user/ (by using mount c ~)the file is located in home/user/downloads i cant move the file to the home directory because it comes locked and nothing can be messed around with)
b) when using this i go into c:, the guide i was using says type QBASIC.EXE and it should run , no such luck , i was hoping someone here could provide a more concise idea of what to do ive looked all over but i cant find any help.
Thank you.
(Essentially a complete step by step guide would be most useful in compltely lost)

[Mikrondel]

I can't really give a step by step guide because there are too many variations between GNU/Linux distributions. I dislike Fedora and consequently don't use it and so haven't much experience with it.

Furthermore, it's easy to mess with GNU/Linux so a step by step guide that works for a default install may not work once you've set it up how you like it (or how some previous guide told you to).

So, if you really want to use GNU/Linux, it's a good idea to get familiar with how it works.

"the file is located in home/user/downloads i cant move the file to the home directory because it comes locked and nothing can be messed around with"

That's rather strange. If you can't move the file you should at least be able to copy it. Even so- usually QBasic comes bundled as a ZIP file (containing at least QBASIC.EXE and QBASIC.HLP). If you have trouble opening the ZIP file let me know. You can also get the more powerful QuickBasic 4.5 and 7.1 off the internet (though I don't believe that's legal).

My advice would be to create a QB directory in your home directory, place the QBasic files in there, and mount this directory from DOSBOX. The command would be something like

mount C ~/qb

Supposing you have some problems, here are some DOS (and DOSBOX) commands:
C:
will change your drive to C. Do this after mounting.
DIR
will list all the files in the current directory. If you can see QBASIC.EXE here, typing it will launch QBasic.
CD dir
changes the current directory. If the current directory contains a directory called QB, then typing CD QB will trasfer you into that directory. CD .. will move you back by one level.


FYI: In the Linux terminal, ls performs the same function as DIR and cd as CD.

Let me know how it goes, or if you want any more information.

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