Simple x basic help/question...

I want to:
1) change date to 05-15-2002
2) lunch program "C:\prog.exe"
3) change date back to todays date
4) compile code into an executable (.exe)

I do not care what language is used as long as it's done...
I picked old QBasic ... thinking it would be quick n easy...

Here is what I have so far (code is almost the same for any basic...):

Problems:
1) program fails to lunch - get "Bad command or file name"
2) when reseting date to one stored in d$ program waits for user input! instead of accepting the d$ string!

Any help is much appreciate...
open to ANY suggestions in regard on how to do this...

Thank you...

Ahhh, QBasic was such a cool program. I used to use it in the early nineties when I was just starting to program

With the date, i dont think there is any other way to use the date.com command. I think your best bet would be to search the net for a tiny DOS app that accepts a parameter to change the date without prompts.

As for executing the .exe, first try placing it in the same directory as your .BAS file and call it without a path, that should work.

My QBasic memory is a little shot, so that's the best I can do

Thx all...
QBasic was a istake althought I fixed the date problem via
LET d$ = DATE$
SHELL "date 05-10-2002" //new
DATE$ = d$ //back to current...

but it just failed to executew another program...

So I installed my VB and did it in about 10 min!

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