Re: MS BASIC, Sinclair BASIC, STOS BASIC: derivatives comparison?

From	Paul Bartlett <bartlett@panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.misc, comp.sys.sinclair
Subject	Re: MS BASIC, Sinclair BASIC, STOS BASIC: derivatives comparison?
Date	2012-12-06 20:30 -0500
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Todd Vargo wrote (trimmed):

> On 12/6/2012 2:40 PM, Paul Bartlett wrote:

>>                                          However, they were/are highly
>> similar, and to the best of my knowledge, it would be legitimate to
>> call QBasic a *slightly* cut down interpreter based on the compiler. I
>> have one encryption / decryption program that I wrote and compiled with
>> QB 4.5 which I still use regularly under Win XP Pro SP3. I haven't
>> tried, but I think it would work under QBasic.

> As far as your encryption program goes, QBasic does not support COMMAND$, so 
> a bit of modification would likely be needed.

That turned out to be easy enough to handle: I didn't use COMMAND$. :)
The program just has prompts.  The net amount of keying would be about
the same, whether the user typed on the command line or in response to
prompts, and in fact using prompts avoided having to parse a command
string.  However, with respect to running it under Win>=98, you have to
use 8.3 paths and filenames, of course.

-- 
Paul Bartlett

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