Jeff(Howbie) Howard wrote in a message to All:

 JH> I've patiently waited for a version of BASIC for OS/2,

Same here...

 JH> generally lurking here and in the OS/2 conf.  A person in
 JH> the OS/2 area stated that there were BASIC's availiable. 

 JH> (An extract from his list:)
 JH>     * BASIC
 JH>     + BASIC, BASICA, and QBASIC for DOS come with OS/2
 JH>     + CA-Realizer 
 JH>     + ObjectView PM BASIC

 JH> Trying both BASICA and BASIC I get the following error:
 JH> 'ROM portion of BASIC not found'. 

Don't waste your time on these, Jeff, they're not worth the effort...

 JH>  Plodding further I find that QBASIC like MS-QBASIC still 
 JH> doesn't have a compiler. 

Yep. Over here I keep getting a "packed file is corrupt" error
when I envoke qbasic.exe... Go figure...

 JH> So, what's CA-Realizer...

It's an $80.00 OS/2 port of the original Windows offering. In fact, when
you buy it, you get the software for both platforms. It's not a true
compiler and only generates tokenized, gui apps... In my book, I bought it,
used it for a week or two and sold it...  'Nuff said...

 JH> ...ObjectView PM BASIC? 

Never actually saw this advertised ANYWHERE. I have heard, in this echo,
that's it very pricey. Do me a favor, if you get a copy opf it, let me kno
how you like it. :')

 JH> I'd love to delve into this matter without switching languages. 

"Matter" ? You mean OS/2?

 JH>  I've been using QuickBasic Extended (BASIC 7.0) for years, and 
 JH> don't have any interest in learning another language, but I'd 
 JH> love to fully exploit OS/2-s PM stuffs. 

That's odd. I'd like to get away from all the GUI stuff and get back to
basic text mode stuff... :')

 JH> Anyone gotta helping hand out there?

Yeah, try Liberty Basic for OS/2. It's another windows port, but has a lot
of promise. If the author, Carl Gundel, can find the time and deliver on
all of his promises (are you listening Carl???) I believe Liberty has a
wonderful future. I have Liberty for Warp 0.70 for freq or download as
LB07.ZIP.


Jerry McBride

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