jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (08/13/87)
At last, I have FROST BASIC online, in uuencoded, SHRUNK form. Because of the large number of requests, I will post it. The file is about 100K bytes long, so I have broken it into four parts. They will appear, hopefully, as the next four messages from me to the net. Part 1 includes instructions for assembling the four parts. Basically (so to speak) you have put the parts back together, uudecode, and unSHRINK. However, the full uuencoded file is over 100K bytes, which WILL NOT FIT on a Single Density disk. So you will have to use enhanced density or double density, or else you will have to uudecode the four parts separately and only then reassemble them. That can be done with DOS using the /A "Append" switch as you copy Parts 2, 3, and 4 in succession onto the tail end of the file you are assembling. Part 1 contains slightly more explicit instructions. By the way, if you use the second method, it might be a good idea to copy the assembled file to another file to get the "bubbles" out. I.e. when you copy with append, there typically are less than full sectors at the junctions (except with the smarter DOSes), and when you copy the file this gets corrected. Owners of the XL or XE machines may want to capture this program (a) for friends with an 800, or (b) in case YOU later get an 800, or (c) in case you want to run Turbo BASIC with a DOS like SpartaDOS or DOS-XL or OS/A+, which need space under the ROM and so are incompatible with Turbo BASIC XL. Enjoy! And thanks again to Ulrich Lang of West Germany, who very kindly mailed the disk version of FROST BASIC across the Atlantic for our benefit. Anybody who absolutely has to have a disk version mailed to them, please notify me again and I will try to get it mailed in a few days. I'll check my files to see if anybody already told me they had to have a disk. Please try to manage to get the program via the net, perhaps with the help of a local friend, but if you MUST have it mailed, I'll be glad to help you out. -John Sangster / jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa