$NetBSD: patch-ac,v 1.1.1.1 2000/02/15 19:43:22 pooka Exp $ --- bwbasic.doc Tue Oct 12 19:30:12 1993 +++ bwbasic.1 Fri Feb 11 22:42:36 2000 @@ -1,33 +1,10 @@ - - - - - Bywater BASIC Interpreter/Shell, version 2.10 - --------------------------------------------- - - Copyright (c) 1993, Ted A. Campbell - for bwBASIC version 2.10, 11 October 1993 - - -CONTENTS: - - 1. DESCRIPTION - 2. TERMS OF USE - 3. QUICK REFERENCE LIST OF COMMANDS AND FUNCTIONS - 4. GENERAL NOTES ON USAGE - 5. EXPANDED REFERENCE FOR COMMANDS AND FUNCTIONS - 6. PREDEFINED VARIABLES - 7. UNIMPLEMENTED COMMANDS AND FUNCTIONS - and AGENDA FOR DEVELOPMENT - 8. THE STORY OF BYWATER BASIC - 9. COMMUNICATIONS - - The author wishes to express his thanks to Mr. David MacKenzie, - who assisted in the development Unix installation and configuration - for this version. - - -1. DESCRIPTION +.Dd October 11, 1993 +.Dt bwBASIC 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm bwBASIC +.Nd BASIC Interpreter/Shell, version 2.10 +.Sh SYNOPSIS The Bywater BASIC Interpreter (bwBASIC) implements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) @@ -60,7 +37,7 @@ offer further shell-processing capabilities. -2. TERMS OF USE: +.Sh TERMS OF USE This version of Bywater BASIC is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), which is distributed with this @@ -71,7 +48,7 @@ for information on which you should contact the author. -3. QUICK REFERENCE LIST OF COMMANDS AND FUNCTIONS +.Sh QUICK REFERENCE LIST OF COMMANDS AND FUNCTIONS Be aware that many of these commands and functions will not be available unless you have set certain flags in the header files @@ -199,7 +176,7 @@ WRITE [# device-number,] element [, element ].... -4. GENERAL NOTES ON USAGE: +.Sh GENERAL NOTES ON USAGE 4.a. Interactive Environment @@ -305,7 +282,7 @@ aliases to allow Microsoft-style programs to be run. -5. EXPANDED REFERENCE FOR COMMANDS AND FUNCTIONS +.Sh EXPANDED REFERENCE FOR COMMANDS AND FUNCTIONS The "Dependencies" listed in the folowing reference materials refers to flags that must be set to TRUE in bwbasic.h for the @@ -1636,7 +1613,7 @@ ------------------------------------------ -6. PREDEFINED VARIABLES +.Sh PREDEFINED VARIABLES BWB.EDITOR$ BWB.FILES$ @@ -1669,7 +1646,7 @@ (specifically CLS, LOCATE, and INKEY$) may be available. -7. UNIMPLEMENTED COMMANDS AND FUNCTIONS, and AGENDA FOR DEVELOPMENT +.Sh UNIMPLEMENTED COMMANDS AND FUNCTIONS, and AGENDA FOR DEVELOPMENT There are some items not implemented that have been so long a part of standard BASICs that their absence will seem surprising. @@ -1853,7 +1830,7 @@ ZONEWIDTH -8. THE STORY OF BYWATER BASIC +.Sh THE STORY OF BYWATER BASIC This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs. Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using @@ -1873,9 +1850,3 @@ bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer. - - -9. COMMUNICATIONS: - - email: tcamp@delphi.com -