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- The BASIC Cruncher
- ------------------
-
- The purpose of the BASIC cruncher is to provide a
- simple method of squashing BASIC programs by the
- usual methods of shortening variable/procedure/
- function names, deleting blank lines, REMs and
- spaces and 'concatenating' lines (ie joining them
- together!).
-
- The procedure to squash a BASIC program is then:
-
- 1) Load the BASIC squasher if it is not already
- loaded. It will appear on the icon bar.
- 2) Drag the BASIC file to the icon.
- 4) Amend the filename in the save window which
- appears, drag the file to the destination
- directory, or just click OK to overwrite the
- original program.
- 5) Wait while the program is squashed. A listing
- of the squashed program appears during the
- process.
-
- Front end © Stuart Hickinbottom
-
- The real thanks for this utility must go to Mike
- Harrison who wrote the BASIC squasher. This is
- present in the application directory - I just
- added command-line decoding to allow it to be
- called from another application. See the BASIC
- program 'BasCrunch' for more information on how
- the squasher works.
-
- This program has been placed into the public domain
- by Stuart Hickinbottom. It may be freely copied and
- distributed for non-profit making purposes (a small
- charge to cover cost of distribution is allowed,
- however), so long as the code is not altered (apart
- from customising !Run/!Boot files) and this text
- file remains present and unaltered. If you have any
- queries/suggestions then I would be chuffed to hear
- from you, so please write to me:
-
- Stuart Hickinbottom,
- 37a High Street,
- Amblecote,
- Stourbridge,
- West Midlands.
- DY8 4DG
-
- email: S.Hickinbottom@uk.ac.lut (until July 1991)