How can I exit Microsoft GW-BASIC, IBM BASICA, or other similar old dialects of BASIC?

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Microsoft BASIC, GW-BASIC and BASICA all use a prompt that looks like this:

I can't figure out how to exit any of these. Typing END does not exit them. EXIT, QUIT, Q, Ctrl+C, and everything else that I can think of also does not work.

I'm sure there's a way to do this. I can't imagine everyone who used BASICA on DOS had to restart their machine every single time they wanted to exit the development environment.

So, how do I exit from the old BASIC editor prompt?

4 Answers

Type "system" and hit enter to exit GW-BASIC in DOS.

Type "shell" and hit enter to go to DOS but still have GW-BASIC in memory. Type "exit" while in DOS to return to GW-BASIC.

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