I looked on the net at Gnome BASIC - if it really is a) on my Mandrake Linux CDs and b) really anything like VB then woo-hoo - maybe I'll port some of my VB stuff to Linux - for example, I wrote an excellent (according to many people :) general multimedia player and editor. It can play anything that the Windows MCI-API can handle (e.g. MPGs, MP3s, AVIs, QuickTime Movies, WAVs, MIDI files, etc. etc. and can handle (show and edit) most image formats - BMP, GIF, JPEG, etc. It can show and edit text files, Word documents, etc. It can also play most MOD files (e.g. pro-tracker MODs, Far, ST3 and 669 files etc). I only use one 3rd party custom control - plus some custom Active X controls I wrote.
For any file formats the program doesn't understand, the program provides options to show and edit them in ASCII or hex format (very useful if you **Know** what you are doing - a lot easier than using DOS' Debug !!!)
Allan
From: Chuck Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [Cooker] BASIC
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:35:06 -0500
On Monday 13 January 2003 06:33, Allan Mee wrote:
>Thanx, Haven't seen Gnome BASIC in Mandrake - I will look for it when I get
>home :)
>Allan
Also, in contribs, there is YABASIC (yet another...). I have not used it
in Mandrake, (nor any Linux, for that matter), but have built, and used it
for various things (some physics code that was, for some reason written in
Microsought's GW-BASIC) several years ago on HP-9000 systems.
-C.S.
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