Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 21:49:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Nissim <nchudnof AT mbhs DOT edu>
To: OpenDOS <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Answers!
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On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Paul W Brannan wrote:

> BASICA is not a shareware compiler.  It is an interpreter that requires
> IBM BASIC to be present in ROM.  You are probably thinking of ASIC, which
> is a scaled-down version of BASIC (no floating point, no LEFT$ or RIGHT$
> -- though there is MID$ which can be used as a substitute).  It's a nice
> product and produces very small and fast executables.

Awk. Your entireley correct.. long time since I've had to use BASIC ;)
Another possibility for the original post-er's question would be a BASIC
to C translator, although I'm not sure if there are any decent ones (never
tried)

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