bwbasic320 3.22

ByWater BASIC Interpreter v3.20

Short:        ByWater BASIC Interpreter v3.20
Author:       mbergmann-sh@web.de (Michael Bergmann)
Uploader:     Michael Bergmann
Type:         dev/lang
Version:      3.22
Replaces:     dev/lang/bwbasic111.lha
Requires:     ixemul.library
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
Distribution: Aminet
Kurz:         ByWater BASIC Interpreter v3.20

---------- Description (english) ----------------------
Bywater Basic interpreter v3.20  for classic Amiga, 
recompiled from original UNIX source. Published under
GNU Public Licence.

The Bywater BASIC Interpreter (bwBASIC) implements a large
superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) 
and a significant subset of the ANSI Standard for Full 
BASIC (X3.113-1987) in C.

BWBASIC is an original creation of Ted A. Campbell, who stopped
working on it in 1993. Since then it has received contributions 
from other programmers: Jon B. Volkoff, Paul Edwards, 
Howard S. Wulf, Ken Martin and Jon Foster.

I recompiled bwBASIC from its original 3.20 sources, using
gcc v2.95 with only minor changes to the source code. Added
some custom makefiles for various CPU targets. Same source
easily recompiles under Linux and Windows, too. All you'd
need is gcc or mingw installed on the target system.

INSTALL
=======
1. copy bin/bwbasic to C:
   you might use a build for your CPU, e.g.
   COPY bin/bwbasic_040 TO C:bwbasic
2. Make bwShell work:
   COPY s/bwShell-Startup TO S:
   
Keep the original installation folder somewhere on your hard drive.
It contains docs and examples for using bwbasic.

Make sure that you have a decent version of ixemul.library available
on your system.

USAGE
=====
Inside program, type:

help - show all commands available.

help commandname - show help for a specific command.

list - list source code for the program currently in memory

run - executes the program in memory from the start.

new - deletes the program in memory and clears all variables.

load filename - loads an ASCII BASIC program into memory.

save filename - saves the current program into the file "filename" 
                in ASCII format.
                
shell "command" - lets you run a SHELL or DOS command within bwbasic. 
                  For example, to list the contents of the current 
		  directory, in Linux type shell "ls -l", 
		  in Windows type shell "dir".
		  
quit - exits bwbasic.

Michael Bergmann, March 2023