I'll not pursue strace further at this time.
As to programming language, I have the choice of either BASIC or Tcl.
I've not used BASIC in years.
I'm learning Tcl using tcltutor30b7. I've verified my program logic with
yabasic. Tcltutor gives handy diagnostics. I'm translating my code to
Tcl. It
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
> With a good filename, nothing printed.
> With a bad filename, it reports file not found.
But it does not abort at that point, does it ?
When the file name is bad, is the resulting filenumber 0 ?
If not: Can you read or write to that filenumber ?
I cling so massively
Hi,
Note: this mail is purely nostalgic and not about yaboot.
David Wright wrote:
> [HP 9845B] If they had a weak point, it was those little tape drives
I once had a hidden line removal program reading a 3D model from one
tape and writing the intermediate result to the other. Then i had to
chang
On 08/20/2018 08:49 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Greg Wooledge wrote:
But if BASIC is working for someone out there, then hey, great.
Sure. I am still wondering what will be the final solution to Richard's
riddle. (The typo theory seems to have died now. Remains the sticky error
theory.)
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 06:55:19AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
> However if you do:
> > strace -o mytrace yabasic test.bas
> it executes, but doesn't apparently doesn't give any explanation ow
> why the two files cannot be opened.
Hm. Y
On Mon 20 Aug 2018 at 09:35:35 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i wrote:
> > > (Found the booklet. It's HP BASIC 3.0, not 2.0. Newest techology of 1985.)
>
> David Wright wrote:
> > I thought we were up to version 4.0¹ by 1985,
>
> Indeed, the booklet says "June 1984 ... First Edition".
Hi,
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> But if BASIC is working for someone out there, then hey, great.
Sure. I am still wondering what will be the final solution to Richard's
riddle. (The typo theory seems to have died now. Remains the sticky error
theory.)
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
On 08/20/2018 07:29 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
Isn’t the problem that you misspelled “experimental” in your original
file paths?
No
I had misspelled it when creating the directory.
And, being a lousy typist, I copy-n-past whenever possible.
I had used Caja's Properties menu to get the path.
But
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 03:26:20PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Nevertheless, between C and shell there is few room for BASIC.
> C for what is complicated and must run fast.
> shell for what is rather simple and must be programmed fast.
In between C and shell, you've got a huge number of scripti
Hi,
i wrote:
> > why use such a C-BASIC when there is gcc, gdb and valgrind ?
> 'Cause the last time I used C was about 4 *DECADES* ago ;}
This way you missed the everlasting joy of hunting bugs which trigger
SIGSEGV at some arbitrary point of program execution.
valgrind widely industrialized th
Isn’t the problem that you misspelled “experimental” in your original file
paths?
Mark
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 21:13 Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 08/20/2018 02:35 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > David Wright wrote:
> > [snip]
> >> Would you agree, though, that "BASIC" is the language that must
> >>
On 08/20/2018 02:35 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
David Wright wrote:
[snip]
Would you agree, though, that "BASIC" is the language that must
have the biggest contrast between its well-endowed versions and
the most dire cr*p.
Well, back then i perceived HP BASIC as the best language of all. It ma
On 08/19/2018 08:50 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 08/19/2018 08:36 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[snip
- try running your program under strace: there you'll see which
system calls are being issued, and perhaps gain some insight
on where this "No such file..." (ENOENT) really happens a
On August 20, 2018 7:35:35 AM UTC, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>Hi,
>
>i wrote:
>> > (Found the booklet. It's HP BASIC 3.0, not 2.0. Newest techology of
>1985.)
>
>David Wright wrote:
>> I thought we were up to version 4.0¹ by 1985,
>
>Indeed, the booklet says "June 1984 ... First Edition".
>
>I thin
Hi,
i wrote:
> > (Found the booklet. It's HP BASIC 3.0, not 2.0. Newest techology of 1985.)
David Wright wrote:
> I thought we were up to version 4.0¹ by 1985,
Indeed, the booklet says "June 1984 ... First Edition".
I think i did not get to BASIC 4.0 because in 1986 i wrote a BASIC program
whic
On Sun 19 Aug 2018 at 17:03:26 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Curt wrote:
> > I ain't no programmer, but sure is butt ugly.
>
> Yeah. This Yet-Another-BASIC lacks the ON ERROR GOTO gesture.
> (Found the booklet. It's HP BASIC 3.0, not 2.0. Newest techology of 1985.)
I thought we were u
Hi,
Curt wrote:
> I ain't no programmer, but sure is butt ugly.
Yeah. This Yet-Another-BASIC lacks the ON ERROR GOTO gesture.
(Found the booklet. It's HP BASIC 3.0, not 2.0. Newest techology of 1985.)
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
On 2018-08-19, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>> I tried to look up their online documentation, but it's one of
>> those stupid javascript-only sites, and I tend to avoid that.
>> Attention economy? I can play that: they won't get mine.
>
> So somebody agrees with me.
> A well done HTML manual is in th
On 08/19/2018 08:36 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
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On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 08:00:31AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I've installed yabasic from the repository.
I invoked as:> richard@debian-jan13:~$
richard@debian-jan13:~$ yabasic
This is yabasic ver
Hi,
i still have a HP BASIC 2.0 Quick Reference somewhere ...
Richar Owlett wrote:
> fd_in=open("/home/richard/Documents/cherrytree/edit_bookmarks/expermental_copies/prettytest0txt","r")
> print peek$("error")
Although the open() call does not really look like BASIC, it is authorized
by http://w
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On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 08:00:31AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I've installed yabasic from the repository.
>
> I invoked as:> richard@debian-jan13:~$
> >richard@debian-jan13:~$ yabasic
> >
> >This is yabasic version 2.78.0,
> >built on i686-pc-linu
I've installed yabasic from the repository.
I invoked as:> richard@debian-jan13:~$
richard@debian-jan13:~$ yabasic
This is yabasic version 2.78.0,
built on i686-pc-linux-gnu at Mon Jan 23 14:17:02 UTC 2017
My code fragment is:
infile$ =
"/home/richard/Documents/cherrytree/edit_bookmarks/exp
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