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Fixed up comments... still needs better commenting though
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1 <refentry id="basic09">
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2 <refnamediv>
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3 <refname>BASIC09</refname>
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4 <refpurpose>Basic language package</refpurpose>
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5 </refnamediv>
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7 <refsynopsisdiv>
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8 <cmdsynopsis>
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9 <command>basic09</command>
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10 <arg choice="opt"><replaceable>filename</replaceable></arg>
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11 </cmdsynopsis>
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12 </refsynopsisdiv>
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14 <refsect1><title>Description</title>
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15 <para>
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16 The Auto-run feature allows BASIC09 to get the name of a file to load and
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17 run from the same command line used to call BASIC09. The file loaded and run
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18 can be either a SAVED file (in the data directory), or a PACKED file (in the
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19 execution directory). The file may contain several procedures; the one
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20 executed is the one with the same name as the file. Parameters may be
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21 passed following the pathname specified.
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22 </para>
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23 <para>
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24 Once one or more BASIC09 procedures are debugged to the programmer's
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25 satisfaction, they can be "packed" or converted permanently to
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26 bytecode form. Comments and names of local variables are discarded during
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27 packing, so that in BASIC09,
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28 comments and intelligible variable names are not considered
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29 a burden to be avoided in the name of efficiency.
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30 </para>
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31 </refsect1>
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32 <refsect1><title>Examples</title>
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33 <screen>
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34 OS9: BASIC09
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35 READY
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36 B:bye
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38 OS9: BASIC09 printreport("Past Due Accounts")
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40 OS9: BASIC09 evaluate(COS(7.8814)/12.075,-22.5,129.055)
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41 </screen>
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42 </refsect1>
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43 <refsect1><title>See Also</title>
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44 <para>
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45 BASIC09 Programming Language Reference Manual
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46 </para>
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47 </refsect1>
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48 </refentry>