From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Aug 13 17:06:37 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA13481 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 17:06:37 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA13475 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 17:06:35 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA19875; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 10:07:14 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508140037.KAA19875@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: your mail To: jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Julian Howard Stacey) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 10:07:13 +0930 (CST) Cc: ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508131905.VAA03025@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Julian Howard Stacey" at Aug 13, 95 09:05:38 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1577 Sender: ports-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Julian Howard Stacey stands accused of saying: > Announcing availability of Phil Cockcroft's Basic V2.0 + my ports wrapper, > for FreeBSD-current. Great! > Note from Makefile: > > MAINTAINER= jhs@freebsd.org > # I don't know the relative merits of pbasic & bwbasic, I don't use Basic. > # I'm merely providing this port wrapper after request for a FreeBSD basic, > # (last week there were no Basics, now there are two). This is ftp://ftp.eng.umd.edu/pub/basic/README : ---- This directory contains the source to three BASIC interpreters written in C. Bywater BASIC supports a fairly rich set of commands and is cleanly and portably written. It also compiles under DOS. However, it is not optimized for speed. UNM BASIC is faster and supports integer variables and "mat" commands. However, it lacks block structuring commands, user defined functions, and "print using". One module is written in Fortran. Phil's BASIC is in between the others in features. It has portability problems with data alignment on RISC machines. ---- We now have Bywater Basic and Phil's Basic in the ports collection; I can't see any reason to add the UNM basic as well; any other takers? > Julian -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[