BASIC question

[thegooddale]

Hi, I'm learning BASIC at the moment and I was wondering if it is possible to write a program in BASIC that can communicate and send commands to another program (also written in BASIC) over a LAN.

I've googled for a bit, but I can't seem to find any info as to whether it's possible to do simple network communication via the BASIC language.

Cheers.

[nikkiH]

What version of BASIC? That's a pretty old language.
Visual Basic 4, 5, 6, .net, QBASIC ...?

[xconspirisist]

Barely any versions of basic have any networking capability, with the exception of Visual Basic.

Unless you have to use a version of BASIC, I suggest you look into java or python.