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- INSTALLATION:
-
- To install Liberty BASIC, first make sure that you are not
- running Windows. The program INSTALL.EXE is included with
- Liberty BASIC to install it for you.
-
- Run this program, and you will be asked where Windows resides.
- The default is C:\WINDOWS. If Windows resides anywhere else,
- you must specify it here.
-
- Now you will be asked where to install Liberty BASIC. The
- default is C:\LIBERTY. If you want it to be installed elsewhere,
- then you must specify it here.
-
- You will then be given an opportunity to abort the installation.
- If you choose not to abort, then installation will begin then.
-
- Once installation is complete, you may load Windows. If you
- specified any directory to install Liberty BASIC into other than
- \LIBERTY, then you will need to alter the properties for the
- Liberty BASIC icon to indicate where it is installed. Otherwise
- you can just go ahead and double-click on its icon to start
- Liberty BASIC.
-
- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | Known bugs: Windows tries to match fonts more or less with size being |
- | more important than the name of the font. When Liberty BASIC loads, it |
- | tries to get a font of a certain size. On some systems, this ends up |
- | being the Symbol font, which is unusable. If your system does this, |
- | then pull down the System menu and select "Fonts...", then find a font |
- | that suits your taste best. |
- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- Liberty BASIC starts with a file browser window. It is arranged as
- four panes, three across the top, and one on the bottom like so:
-
- +--------------------------------------------------------------+
- | - Liberty BASIC c:\liberty v ^ |
- +--------------------------------------------------------------+
- | a [1] | [..] [2] | demo.bas [3] |
- | b | liberty | read.bas |
- | c | msdos | test.bas |
- | | | |
- | select drive here | select directory | select file here |
- | | here | |
- +--------------------------------------------------------------+
- | [4] |
- | |
- | |
- | |
- | see BASIC source code here |
- | |
- | |
- | |
- | |
- +--------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- Select the drive to browse in pane [1], then select the directory
- (usually liberty) to browse in pane [2], then finally the file to
- browse in pane [3]. When the .BAS file is selected, its source will
- be displayed in pane [4]. To run the program, position the cursor
- inside of pane [3] and press the right hand mouse button and a menu
- will appear. Then select the item BASIC source editor, and a new
- window will open which will contain a copy of the source for the
- selected file. Then position the cursor inside of that pane and again
- press the right hand mouse button for another menu. There are two
- options available, Run and Debug. Run compiles and runs the program,
- and Debug provides the additional benefit of a 3 level source level
- debugger with optional watch window (v 0.9 let's you do this in
- pane 4 without opening a seperate BASIC source editor).
-
- If you want help, you can get this on-line by pulling down the Help
- menu and selecting either Liberty BASIC Notes, or Command Reference.
- If you select a word in the source editor and then select help, the
- system will try to find that word or command in the text.
-
-
- HINT for 286 users with only 3 megabytes of RAM:
- ---------------------------------------------------
- 3 megabytes RAM is very tight for Liberty BASIC when
- running in Standard Mode. If low memory errors make
- Liberty BASIC unusable, try to free up as much extended
- memory as possible. If all else fails, try this:
-
- Run Windows ;
- Run Liberty BASIC ;
- Exit Liberty BASIC ;
- Run Liberty BASIC again
-
- As strange a ritual as this may seem, it does something
- to the way Liberty BASIC manages its memory, making
- those low memory errors much less trouble. We cannot
- guarantee that this trick will work on your system.
-