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From: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Cheap Basic for unix?
Message-ID: <5298@prls.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 12:55:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: prls.5298
Posted: Fri Jul 31 12:55:32 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 04:21:50 EDT
References: <643@savax.UUCP> <450@hscfvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Organization: Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, California
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>In article <643@savax.UUCP> dove@savax.UUCP (webster dove) writes:
>Can anyone point me to a public domain (but working!) basic
>interpreter written in C to be used on a Sun 3?  Or an inexpensive
>non-public one?

     I have a public domain (and working) basic interpreter written in C.
     I don't know if it would run on a Sun 3, I am completely ignorant of
  Sun hardware, and Unix flavor.

     The BASIC we use here was distributed over Usenet last December. It
  was written by Phil Cockcroft and the only bug I heard about was a minor
  fix (cosmetic) to a termcap related subroutine. Sorry, I missed the posting
  containing the fix.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
     To quote Phil's README file:
       ".... based on a combination of Microsoft level 5 BASIC and RT11's
       MU-BASIC with a smattering of BASIC plus."

       Built and tested on:
                VAX BSD4.2 (4.1),
                PDP11 (with and without Floating point hardware) and running
                    V6, V7, BSD2.8, BSD2.9
                Pyramid 98x
                and on a Unisoft 68000 (V7)

       System dependant code extracted and placed in relevant subdirectories.

       ****** ASSUMES pointers == sizeof(int)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

      I have only used this BASIC a couple of times and the only thing I really
  remember is I didn't have to refer to the manual. I thought this was an 
  impressive and well done project. It seems to be compatable with many 
  differant flavors of BASIC.

      As I mentioned, I have the sources to this BUT, the sources are on
  "my" VAX and , lacking a network connection, I use tip(1) (similar to cu(1))
  to connect this account on the 'prls' hosts. Since this is only a 4800 baud
  line (which expects a typist and not a 4800 baud continuos stream), it will
  take hours for me to upload the 268K of sources.  

      Please check the archive sites first, if you don't know where/how to
  get sources from the archive sites, let me know and I will send instructions.
  If several people want the sources, maybe we can have them reposted. If all
  else fails, I will upload the files. 
 

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