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Haber

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Description

An Introduction to UBASIC (Written for version 8.84) by Seymour Haber (Copyright 1996) Contents: Lesson 1: How to escape from bad situations. Starting UBASIC. Writing a program. Displaying, running, and printing a program. Saving a program (to disk) and loading (from disk). Some editing of programs. Precision of numbers in UBASIC. Point. Immediate mode. Lesson 2: Input. Function subprograms. For-next Loops. If-then- else-endif. Print using. Graphics: screen, view, window, pset, line, colors. Some more editing. Lesson 3: Subroutines. Local variables. While-wend loops. Function-name variables.

Description extracted automatically from the documentation inside the package: this entry was not in the original catalogue.

Technical details

File
HABER.ZIP
Size
30.4 KB
Format
.zip
Year
1997
Files inside
1
Path
anonftp/pub/HABER.ZIP

How to install it

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Steps
  1. This package has no recognisable executables. Download it and look at its contents: it may be documentation, source code or supporting material.

Derived from the package contents and the 200LX conventions. It installs to A: on purpose: C: is a RAM disk and every byte there is memory taken from the system.

It also needs 2

The manual mentions these files, which are in the archive:

The author's instructions 
Installing UBASIC on your computer:  UBASIC is often distributed on a
floppy disk and I shall suppose that you have it in that form.  The disk
contains a number of files whose names end with ".ZIP".  Those are "archive"
files and each one contains a set of files of various sorts, compressed.  There
is also a file named UNZIP.EXE (or PKUNZIP.EXE) that extracts and
decompresses the contents of .ZIP files.  The archive files on the disk that I
have are UBIBM884.ZIP, UBHELP.ZIP, UBIAPL94.ZIP, UBI874GR.ZIP, and some others.
UBIBM884.ZIP contains most of the UBASIC working environment - the interpreter,
editor, etc.  A few other files that UBASIC needs - UBCONST7.DAT, UBH.UB,
UBH.BAT, UB.MAC, MAKEUBB.BAT, UBHELP.DOC and UBHELP.COM - are in UBIAPL94.ZIP.
UBI874GR.ZIP contains various graphics programs written in UBASIC, including
PLOT3D.UB which is a useful plotter of functions of 2 variables.  Most of
UBIAPL94.ZIP and all of UBIAPL95.ZIP, PPMPX.ZIP, UBMALM.ZIP and UBPPMPQS.ZIP
consist of UBASIC programs, mostly number-theoretical.  For a minimal
installation you need only decompress UBIBM884.ZIP, UBHELP.ZIP and UBIAPL94.ZIP
- which also contain some text files (particularly READMEUB.884 and
UBHELP.XXX) that give you information about UBASIC.

      To install UBASIC on your hard disk, first set up a directory in which
it is to reside.  I'll take this directory to be \UB884, but you may use any
name you wish (that is acceptable to DOS).  Copy UNZIP.EXE and UBIBM884.ZIP
into that directory, from your floppy, and any other .ZIP files that you wish.
Then, at the DOS command prompt, type in
                            unzip ubibm884
(ending by pressing the Enter key).  The 3 files in UBIBM884.ZIP will be
…

Literal excerpt from haber.txt, exactly as it came in the package.

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