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From: zimm@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dylan Yolles)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: BASIC for UNIX?
Message-ID: <9519@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Feb 90 01:15:41 GMT
Sender: Dylan Yolles <zimm@portia.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: zimm@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dylan Yolles)
Organization: Stanford University
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Some of you may recall my failed attempts to get info on PD Unix Databases
(it turns out that there are really only two: INDEX, which is only suitable
for very simple tasks, and INGRES which is only suitable for insanely
complicated ones).

If I only had a BASIC for UNIX, I could do everything I need. Ideally,
it would be able to use UNIX shell commands, too, and have decent
string manipulation abilities.

Every UNIX utility (awk, sed, grep, etc.) has some wacky limitation that
makes it unusable to me. I need BASIC! Please! (This is really getting
horrible--if I had an 8k PET I would have gotten this darn thing done
a long time ago...)

djy
zimm@portia.stanford.edu