>Pretty much. Consider that with something like FoxBASE, or BASICA, you needed that program to both edit and execute. Granted FoxBASE+ did have a separate pcode compiler that could be used in conjunction with a run-time library, but for the most part (to my knowledge) folks used the full-blown FoxBASE application.

You could write ASCII BASICA code, providing it was compiled and linked to test. Didn't BASICA EDITOR autmatically "encrypt" ascii code when it was loaded into the editor/interpretor?

err.. where did i put that 8088 DOS 2.0 system?