From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ichi@ihug.co.nz Subject: Re: (X and other) basics (was: A few more things...) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:55:53 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DB3B309.7DDDE492@ihug.co.nz> References: <200210201600.g9KG01q22591@ev6.be.wanadoo.com> <3DB3AD39.3E68F6A1@ihug.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Heimo Claasen wrote: > > And indeed I would like to find a textmode/comnandline > Basic (or for that matter, just any other language but > C_variant), in order to port some DOS stuff; Have you considered using a BASH script? I recently ported an old Adventure game from Commodore BASIC to BASH. It works fine. The only real difficulty was untangling the BASIC spaghetti (the original code had *many* GOTOs). However, if your BASIC code is well structured, it should not be too difficult to convert it to a BASH script. Cheers, Steven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs