From: mike.swift@yeton.co.uk   
      
   In article , Dave J.    
   writes   
   >If you're still here and still reading, one option you could use as a   
   >'getround' if you can find a copy is a qbasic compiler. I've no idea if   
   >it's still findable on web search engines. It runs the same tacky   
   >version of basic, but it compiles it into an EXE first. This *might*   
   >result in something where the slowdown either no longer impacts or at   
   >least where it no longer matters.   
      
      
   Still here, my program was compiled to an exe file with QB45, it also   
   called a bat file to backup my information to floppy and the second   
   drive just in case of a crash, this also stopped working.   
      
   However.........I've got it working again, I messed about with some of   
   the properties and it's now back to normal, pity I can't remember how I   
   did it, the bat file uses xcopy so I put a copy in the accounts folder   
   and that now works so I con only assume my path statement has been   
   altered somehow.   
      
   Thanks for the info in the bit I've snipped, I did try an old copy of   
   Visual Basic I had hanging around but couldn't get my head round it,   
   I'll try your idea in case this happens again, thanks.   
      
   Mike   
      
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