Rexx Language

[Tehas]

How'd you get a Debian installer on your Z?

Is the .deb file something that I could gunzip / untar like you can with a ipk file?

[rgzu]

Tehas,

I'm using Sharp ROM 3.1 and it has the dpkg-deb command built in.

lareya,

Just go here:

http://packages.debian.org/stable/interpreters/bwbasic

At the bottom of the page click on the 'arm' button and choose a download site. The package downloaded is bwbasic_2.20pl2-5_arm.deb

execute the following command at the in the console:

dpkg-deb -x bwbasic_2.20pl2-5_arm.deb <destination directory> I used /mnt/card/bwbasic so I'll use this path in the rest of the example.

which will extract the contents into the /mnt/card/bwbasic

ignore the error message:

dpkg-dev: Cannot create symlink from ./usr/share/man/man1/renum.1.gz to 'bwbasic.1.gz': Operation not permitted

If you go to /mnt/card/bwbasic you will see the following;

/mnt/card/bwbasic/usr
/mnt/card/bwbasic/usr/bin
/mnt/card/bwbasic/usr/bin/bwbasic
/mnt/card/bwbasic/usr/bin/renum
/mnt/card/bwbasic/usr/share/doc/bwbasic/README.gz
/mnt/card/bwbasic/usr/share/doc/bwbasic/README.patch01
/mnt/card/bwbasic/usr/share/doc/bwbasic/README.patch02
/mnt/card/bwbasic/usr/share/doc/bwbasic/changelog.Debian.gz
/mnt/card/bwbasic/usr/share/doc/bwbasic/copyright
/mnt/card/bwbasic/usr/share/doc/bwbasic/examples/<contains example programs>
/mnt/card/bwbasic/usr/share/man/man1/bwbasic.1.gz

I just copied the bwbasic binary to a directory in my path ie /usr/local/bin

also when running bwbasic you will find the backspace doesn't work and you will need to enter stty etase ^? if inside the editor of bwbasic if using it in interactive mode.

A list of commands for it can be found here: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~ed/cs2602/basic1.htm

Finally I have a couple of decent fun easy to use language interpreters on my Z!

Have fun!

[lareya]

thanks so much!  I have been looking for a basic program 4EVER.
the instructions are clear that even i can follow them.
Thanks,

Lareya

[rgzu]

Glad I could help!

Yeah I know what you mean, the only two other basic interpreters I found were cocoa basic which was java based and blassic. The first I wasn't impressed with and anyway needs Jeode which takes up a chunk of space itself, and the second was on a site that doesn't seem to exist anymore.

If you want to use a scripting language that's as easy to use as basic, you might want to try REXX which was what started this thread :-)