On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 02:11:06 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:55:31 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> There are MANY versions of BASIC available for Linux.

> I wonder if anyone here could recommend for me a very small version
> of Basic that I might easily install and run well in the small
> ramdrive version of BasicLinux.  Although I know how to program in
> QBASIC, I prefer the versions of BASIC that use line numbers, like
> GW Basic for example.

So do I.

Sam, I have this (which I got from Steve I believe) and I present this
info so you can see how little space it takes:
D:\>findfile basic

FF-File Find, Version 3.00, (C) Copyright 1984, Peter Norton

D:\PYGMY07
  BASIC.RPM       24,819 bytes  12:11 am  Thu Jan 18 01
  BASIC.TGZ       22,423 bytes   4:40 am  Thu Jan 18 01

D:\PYGMY07\USR\BIN
  BASIC           41,968 bytes   6:23 pm  Tue May  5 98

D:\PYGMY07\USR\DOC\BASIC-1.20
  BASIC.DOC       11,310 bytes   1:24 pm  Thu Nov  2 89

D:\PYGMY07\VAR\LOG\PACKAGES
  BASIC              219 bytes   4:43 am  Thu Jan 18 01

5 files found

Type EXIT to return to Arachne

You can delete the first 2 after install, I believe.
I can send you both, but I believe the rip'em contains the targa. <g>

It is a bit limited in that it has no provision for reading and writing
files, or comm ports.

- Clarence Verge
- Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....

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