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For awhile googling for GWBasic would find my homepage. (I used to have a video call widget and my username was "GWBasic.")

Someone once emailed me looking for support for GWBasic. They apparently got ahold of an old GWBasic program that was saved in an encrypted manner. It was run-only but they couldn't list out the source code.

I just dug out my old GWBasic manual. The command was "Save P"



Did the manual have the incredibly easy "decryption" process?

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.msdos.misc/c/PA9sve0eKAk


No. At the time I got the email my GWBasic manual was 3000 miles away.

But it was one of those cases of someone not having good internet etiquette. There was no reference to "GW-Basic" on my home page, other than metadata in the HTML. I should have responded with a link to let me google that for you.




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