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- From: moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: AMODEM/interfacing BASIC w/ modem
- Message-ID: <8T80NB7w164w@cyberden.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 14:50:06 PDT
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- Organization: Indescribable Creations
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- <giggle> Nooooooo... STILL don't have Action!... (I'm REALLY waiting
- for Quick, tho...heheh)
-
- Anyways.... I've started this damned program over 100 times
- (ok..about 5 or 6 :) )
-
- Anyways... I tried it in BASIC 2 or 3 times...then in Draper Pascal
- (BIG was of 40 pages for the docs, since DP don't work w/MyDOS (too many
- buffers allocated! SCREW YOU! If I set it down to 1 (maximum this thing
- lets me use) you don't WORK RIGHT!!!!!!))... FINALLY I decided "hey, I
- made a little textfile->BASIC translater that's structured & has
- procedure calls and all that spiffy stuff I like in TBXL but don't have
- in BASIC!"... so I loaded it up... tested it out (to see if I actually
- implimented ALL the routines I had on my little list) and it worked! I
- have yet to get anything accomplished, but I think once I remove ALL the
- bugs (and be sure to end each statement w/a ":"!!..damned xlator DOESN'T
- check for syntax!!) and get it to load up & not crash, I think I could
- get this thing somewhere. Anyone care to see the sourcecode? (just for
- fun... you might actually want a copy of the xlator program.... NOT!)
-
- For now I've got a disk full of ".DAT" files for the BBS to load up
- properly when run, a copy of source, a BASIC LISTing of it (that the
- xlator makes..btw: xlators in basic!!..I run it in TBXL tho..for speed),
- a BASIC SAVE of it, MyDOS, TBXL (to run the xlator), the xlator itself,
- and TPX for editing the damned source and .DAT files.... took up half th
- disk, but I don't think I'll be adding much to it very soon!!!
-
- hmm... maybe I'd better get back to work on it! ;)
-
- "Be seeing you!"
- Say|____________9_year_veteran_ ||| __
- Hi |PhBill: Bill Kendrick / | \
- if |moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
- in |__________________________________
- NJ!| July 21, 1992
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