Dupe doc files that were removed:
Bwbasic-3.2-options.txt -> ../DOCS/BYWATER.txt
Bwbasic_3.20_manual.docx -> "docx" version of ../README
Bwbasic-changelog.txt -> ../README
Bwbasic-2.1-Manual.txt -> Bwbasic-2.1.doc
Bwbasic-Doc-2.1.txt -> man-ified version of Bwbasic-2.1.doc
Since these are duplicate files their content has gotten / will get
out of date. Removing them prevents erronious information.
Document files renamed for consistency:
Bwbasic.doc -> Bwbasic-3.20.txt
Bwbasic-2.1.doc -> Bwbasic-2.1.txt
Bwbasic-1.1-Manual.txt -> Bwbasic-1.1.txt
* Implements most of the following BASIC dialects:
OPTION VERSION "BYWATER" ' Bywater BASIC 3
OPTION VERSION "BYWATER-2" ' Bywater BASIC 2
OPTION VERSION "CALL/360" ' SBC CALL/360 Mainframe BASIC
OPTION VERSION "CBASIC-II" ' CBASIC-II for CP/M
OPTION VERSION "DARTMOUTH" ' Dartmouth DTSS BASIC
OPTION VERSION "ECMA-55" ' ANSI Minimal BASIC
OPTION VERSION "ECMA-116" ' ANSI Full BASIC
OPTION VERSION "GCOS" ' GE 600 Mainframe BASIC
OPTION VERSION "HAARDT" ' bas 2.4 by Michael Haardt
OPTION VERSION "HANDBOOK1" ' The BASIC Handbook, 1st Edition
OPTION VERSION "HANDBOOK2" ' The BASIC Handbook, 2nd Edition
OPTION VERSION "HEATH" ' Heath Benton Harbor BASIC
OPTION VERSION "MARK-I" ' GE 265 Mainframe BASIC
OPTION VERSION "MARK-II" ' GE 435 Mainframe BASIC
OPTION VERSION "MBASIC" ' Microsoft BASIC-80 for Xenix
OPTION VERSION "PDP-8" ' DEC PDP-8 BASIC
OPTION VERSION "PDP-11" ' DEC PDP-11 BASIC
OPTION VERSION "RBASIC" ' Micronics RBASIC for 6809 FLEX
OPTION VERSION "RSTS-11" ' DEC RSTS-11 BASIC-PLUS
OPTION VERSION "SYSTEM/360" ' IBM System/360 Mainframe BASIC
OPTION VERSION "SYSTEM/370" ' IBM System/370 Mainframe BASIC
OPTION VERSION "TRS-80" ' TRS-80 Model I/III/4 LBASIC
OPTION VERSION "VINTAGE" ' Vintage BASIC 1.0.1
OPTION VERSION "XBASIC" ' TSC XBASIC for 6800 FLEX
* CONST variable [, ...] = value
Assigns the value to variable.
Any later assignment to the variable causus a VARIABLE NOT DECLARED error.
* DIM now supports lower and upper bounds.
OPTION BASE 1
DIM X( 9 ) ' lower bound is 1
DIM Y( 5 TO 9 ) ' lower bound is 5
* DIM now supports virtual variables.
OPTION BASE 1
OPEN "VIRTUAL.DAT" FOR VIRTUAL AS # 3 ' virtual data file
DIM # 3, A( 1000 ) ' array is virtual
LET A( 1000 ) = 0 ' value is written to the file
LET X = A( 1000 ) ' value is read from the file
CLOSE # 3 ' array is no longer valid
* ERROR 27, "Bad DATA"
Occurs when the READ command detects garbage in a DATA command.
* INPUT LINE
Same as LINE INPUT.
* MAT now supports lower and upper bounds.
OPTION BASE 1
MAT X( 9 ) = ZER ' lower bound is 1
MAT Y( 5 TO 9 ) = ZER ' lower bound is 5
MAT X = ZER( 9 ) ' lower bound is 1
MAT Y - ZER( 5 TO 9 ) ' lower bound is 5
* MAXLEN()
Returns the maximum string length.
* OPTION DIGITS integer
Sets the number of significant digits for PRINT.
Setting the value to zero restores the default.
* OPTION EDIT string$
Sets the program name used by the EDIT command.
Setting this to "" disables EDIT command.
* OPTION FILES string$
Sets the program name used by the FILES command.
Setting this to "" disables FILES command.
* OPTION PROMPT string$
Sets the prompt.
* OPTION PUNCT AT char$
Sets the PRINT AT character, commonly "@".
Setting this to "" disables PRINT AT.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT BYTE char$
Sets the BYTE type suffix, commonly "~".
Setting this to "" disables BYTE suffix.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT COMMENT char$
Sets the trailing COMMENT character, commonly "'".
Setting this to "" disables trailing comments.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT CURRENCY char$
Sets the CURRENCY type suffix, commonly "@".
Setting this to "" disables CURRENCY suffix.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT DOUBLE char$
Sets the DOUBLE type suffix, commonly "#".
Setting this to "" disables DOUBLE suffix.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT FILENUM char$
Sets the FILE NUMBER prefix, commonly "#".
Setting this to "" disables the FILE NUMBER prefix.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT IMAGE char$
Sets the shortcut IMAGE character, commonly ":".
Setting this to "" disables the shortcut IMAGE character.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT INPUT char$
Sets the shortcut INPUT character, commonly "!".
Setting this to "" disables the shortcut INPUT character.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT INTEGER char$
Sets the INTEGER type suffix, commonly "%".
Setting this to "" disables INTEGER suffix.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT LONG char$
Sets the LONG type suffix, commonly "&".
Setting this to "" disables LONG suffix.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT LPAREN char$
Sets the LEFT PARENTHESIS character, commonly "(".
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT PRINT char$
Sets the shortcut PRINT character, commonly "?".
Setting this to "" disables the shortcut PRINT character.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT QUOTE char$
Sets the QUOTE character, commonly """".
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT RPAREN char$
Sets the RIGHT PARENTHESIS character, commonly ")".
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT SINGLE char$
Sets the SINGLE type suffix, commonly "!".
Setting this to "" disables SINGLE suffix.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT STATEMENT char$
Sets the shortcut STATEMENT seperator character, commonly ":".
Setting this to "" disables the STATEMENT seperator.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION PUNCT STRING char$
Sets the STRING type suffix, commonly "$".
Setting this to "" disables STRING suffix.
Setting this to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION RECLEN integer
Sets the default record length for RANDOM files, commonly 128.
Setting thisto zero means there is no default RANDOM record
length, so the record length must be specified in the OPEN
statement.
With OPTION RECLEN 128:
OPEN "FILE.DAT" FOR RANDOM AS #3
is considered to be the same as
OPEN "FILE.DAT" FOR RANDOM AS #3 LEN 128
With OPTION RECLEN 0:
OPEN "FILE.DAT" FOR RANDOM AS #3
causes an error.
* OPTION RENUM string$
Sets the program name used by the RENUM command.
Setting this to "" disables RENUM command.
* OPTION SCALE integer
Sets the number of digits to round after the decimal point for PRINT.
Setting the value to zero disables rounding.
* OPTION USING DIGIT
* OPTION USING COMMA
* OPTION USING PERIOD
* OPTION USING PLUS
* OPTION USING MINUS
* OPTION USING EXRAD
* OPTION USING DOLLAR
* OPTION USING FILLER
* OPTION USING LITERAL
* OPTION USING FIRST
* OPTION USING ALL
* OPTION USING LENGTH
Sets the characters recognized by PRINT USING.
Setting these to a non-punctuation character is not supported.
* OPTION VERSION now requires a string instead of a literal.
Some version names have changed.
* OPTION VERSION "PDP-8"
Added LPT, PTP, PTR, TTY, TTY IN and TTY OUT commands.
Added GET() and PUT() functions.
* OPTION VERSION "CALL/360"
* OPTION VERSION "SYSTEM/360"
* OPTION VERSION "SYSTEM/370"
Added alphabet extenders. $ is a string variable.
* OPTION ZONE integer
Sets the PRINT zone width.
Setting the value to zero restores the default.
* REPEAT - UNTIL added
REPEAT
...
EXIT REPEAT
...
UNTIL expression ' exits when expression != 0
* SPC( X ) and TAB( X )
No longer use control codes.
* UNTIL - UEND removed (to add REPEAT - UNTIL)
Here is a work-around for existin code using UNTIL-UEND:
UNITL expression -->> WHILE NOT expression
... ...
EXIT UNTIL -->> EXIT WHILE
... ...
UEND -->> WEND
* from Howard Wulf, AF5NE
Editor's Note: In the official release *ALL* of the test and sample
BASIC programs were removed and packaged in a separate "test" ZIP. I
have extracted those in to the bwbtest folder where most of the
tests were living in previous packages. I've also improved (I hope)
the EOL handling.
- ChipMaster
* Implements most of the following BASIC dialects:
OPTION VERSION DARTMOUTH ' Dartmouth DTSS BASIC
OPTION VERSION MARK-I ' GE 265 Mainframe BASIC
OPTION VERSION MARK-II ' GE 435 Mainframe BASIC
OPTION VERSION SYSTEM-360 ' IBM System/360 BASIC
OPTION VERSION SYSTEM-370 ' IBM System/370 BASIC
OPTION VERSION CBASIC-II ' CBASIC-II for CP/M
OPTION VERSION ECMA-55 ' ANSI Minimal BASIC
OPTION VERSION HANDBOOK1 ' The BASIC Handbook, 1st Edition
OPTION VERSION HANDBOOK2 ' The BASIC Handbook, 2nd Edition
OPTION VERSION TRS-80 ' TRS-80 Model I/III/4 LBASIC
OPTION VERSION BASIC-80 ' Microsoft BASIC-80 for Xenix
OPTION VERSION ECMA-116 ' ANSI Full BASIC
* from Howard Wulf, AF5NE
Editor Note: There appears to be a lot of output artifacts left in this commit
but its included verbatim, as delivered in the official source tar ball for
historical accuracy. - ChipMaster
Ye Ol' π Shack
Jon Foster