Thanks for the solutions. I later found that the old Red hat BASIC package
was "Chipmunk BASIC" which has evolved considerably since the 1.20
days. If anyone else needs BASIC, my advice would be to avoid it at all
costs. As a last resort, the Chipmunk BASIC home page has numerous BASIC
links. But really, I did not find any good Linux-oriented BASIC
interpreters (cbas, for example, is primarily oriented toward the Mac) to
run old DOS BASIC programs.
In the process, I became reacquainted with exactly how horrid BASIC is and
decided to port rather than try to debug the BASIC code.
-Alan
At 01:09 PM 10/21/00 , you wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Alan Mead wrote:
> > I have a book with BASIC code intended to run on a DOS system (like BASICA
> > or GW-BASIC). I can port it but I feel that running the original and
> > ported code on the same data is the best way to validate the port.
> >
> > I've installed Bywater BASIC and a package intended for 5.2 called
> > basic-1.20-10. The old 5.x package runs but it fails every time I try to
> > load a file with "Type mismatch file". The Bywater BASIC doesn't support
> > all the DOS features like INPUT$.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest an alternative. I may have to find an actual DOS
> system!
> >
>DOSEMU, or Opendos, which ships with a lot of distros. :-)
> John
>
>
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