Re: LOCL

There are a fair few Basic compilers, interpreters and other assorted odds and
sods around, even some - horror of horrors - for Linux.  Try google and
sourceforge.net first.

My personal preference for ways and means of executing a .bas file is A: a
firing squad, and B: at the crack of dawn.

YMMV

Wesley Parish

On Monday 14 April 2003 05:06 am, you wrote:
> In my experience you need an application like QBASIC (the old compiler
> and editer for MS-DOS) to be able to run basic source files... I think I
> recall a compiler which could make an executable file out of them, but I
> believe you had to pay for it (heh). I'm not quite sure how one would go
> about acquiring the necessary tools to execute a .bas file in this day
> and age, however.
>
> Jonathan Knibb wrote:
> >Chris - sounds like a great utility, and it's downloading fine now.
> >Just one question from one unused to QBasic ... what exactly does one
> >do to a .bas file to make it do its stuff?  Double-clicking doesn't
> >seem to be cutting the mustard.
> >
> >Forgive my ignorance :)
> >
> >Jonathan.
> >
> >[reply to jonathan underscore knibb at hotmail dot com]
> >--
> >'O dear white children casual as birds,
> >Playing among the ruined languages...'
> >Auden/Britten, 'Hymn to St. Cecilia'
--
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You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
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