Monthly Archives: May 2023

Created better EBCDIC Basic-Plus conversion program

I believe it’s more readable and efficient than my first attempt. I translated my julia style EBCDIC table to a more convential Basic way by using DATA statements. I didn’t borrow Jay’s data statement’s like I said I might. Mainly because he used hexadecimal values in his program. To me that’s an extra conversion step …

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Dumb Basic-Plus coding mistake

I was adding a line feed to a print character if something occurred. But it wasn’t working. Why? That’s what I do in Linux, and this is running on Linux. No…it’s running under Linux and the Basic-Plus environment uses CR+LF like MicroSoft. I should say MicroSoft uses CR+LF like DEC.

I guess it’s still sometimes Fatpack

I thought Flatpack had fixed their excessive size problem. Apparently Not! At least not always. I installed Solitaire and Mahjongg (sometimes spelled Mahjong) last night. Two old classics that I sometimes like to play. And Mahjongg’s Flatpack was a 942.7MG download (2.3GB disk space required), almost 1 GB download for a simple game? Thank goodness …

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