Why does the BASIC command not work?
You have installed everything correctly as far as you can see but when you try the BASIC command, nothing seems to work. It is almost certain that your Visual C++ installation is not correct for this user, in that the environment variables are not correctly installed for this user. • Try the verbose option of the BASIC command [ BASIC BP Program (V ] and see if it is failing when it tries to issue the cl command. If it does, then your PATH is not set to include the Visual C++ bin directory. • To verify your PATH is not correctly configured, type the cl command directly from the shell prompt. If the response when type the cl comand is “‘cl’ is not recognized…” , then you know that your PATH is not set up correctly. • Reinstall Visual C++. It will do you no harm to install Visual C++ again and see if your problem goes away as the VC++ install will not recopy any programs that exist but will set up the users environment variables if they are wrong.
So you have installed everything correctly as far as you can see but when you try the BASIC command, nothing seems to work. What could you have done wrong? It is almost certain that your Visual C++ installation is not correct for this user in that the environment variables are not correctly installed for this user. You can reinstall Visual C++ as this user or check the list of Environment Variables below. You can go through the following list first if you like: • Try the verbose option of the BASIC command [ BASIC BP Program (V ] and see if it is failing when it tries to issue the cl command. If it does, then your PATH is not set to include the Visual C++ bin directory. Before rushing off to do this though, make sure that all required variables are set by consulting the list below. • To verify your PATH is not correctly configured, type the cl command directly from the shell prompt. If the shell tells you off for typing a command that does not exist, then you know that your PATH is not
