The whole basis of Visual Basic is the visual part. Which means making GUI apps. Not the old dos apps. You can't do it with VB because VB is designed specifically for making Windows applications. In fact, as far as I know, you can't even make apps for OS's like Unix or Linux with VB. If you want to make DOS apps, then learn C or C++. And make sure you don't use Visual C++ to write the programs, or you'll run into problems. Because it is also designed to make Windows apps.

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Ryan