Make sure the file name you entered in the dialog box conforms to these rules and assumptions used by QuickBASIC: - A file name has two parts: the "base name", which is everything up to but not including the period (.), and the "extension," which includes the period and up to three characters. You can use any combination of upper- and lower-case characters; these example filenames all refer to the same file: abcde.bas, ABCDE.BAS, and aBcDe.BaS - If the file name is 8 or less characters with no period, QuickBASIC assumes the extension .BAS. If the file name is between 9 and 11 characters, QuickBASIC puts a period after the eighth character.