the "RUN" statement within a program

[Mona B]

I'm trying to use a RUN statement within a program, and I keep getting the error messages "path not found" and "undefined line".

I attempted to use it all of the following ways:

230 IF CHOICE% = 1 THEN RUN "A:\SIREN"

230 IF CHOICE% = 1 THEN RUN "SIREN"

230 IF CHOICE% = 1 THEN RUN "~/BASIC/SIREN"

230 IF CHOICE% = 1 THEN RUN "A:\BASIC\SIREN"

None of these work. And I could not find more clear instructions in the documentation.

What is the proper format for this?

I am using PCBasic on Ubuntu 16.04

[Rob Hagemans]

The third version won't work, PC-BASIC requires MS-DOS style paths. The others might work, depending on where in your file system you've mounted PC-BASIC's drive A: and what is the current directory when the line is executed.
Have you mounted A: to a location in your file system? What happens if you try FILES "A:"?

See http://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/doc/#mounting for more information on how to access your file system from PC-BASIC

[Mona B]

My .bas files are located in ~/BASIC. I have not mounted a path to them. I usually open PCBasic in the BASIC directory thru the command line.

So if I understand correctly, I will need to mount my path to the BASIC folder first?

At that point, how do I express the path within the program?

Up until now, I've avoided mounting, simply because I dont understand the same thing I don't understand here - how to properly write/format the expression of it.

I just attempted to mount with mount=A:/home/me/BASIC

It produced an error when I open PCBasic from the command line, in my home folder WARNING: Error in configuration file /home/me/.config/pcbasic/PCBASIC.INI. Configuration not loaded.

Thanks for all of your help.

[Rob Hagemans]

Hi, could you attach the full configuration file? The mount line looks correct, in principle, so there might be some other reason why you see that error.

[Mona B]

Here ya go. Right now, the mount line is commented out to avoid the error message. It was not commented out when I tried it, but that is the setting I tried.

[Rob Hagemans]

Hi, can you send me the file that produces the error? To be able to see how the error occurs, I need to see the file that causes the actual error, not with the lines commented out. For example, did you leave a space in front of mount when you uncommented it? That might perhaps cause such an error.

For now the only thing I can see that is strange is this:
- the line preset=tandy should not be under [preset]. If you want to use the tandy preset, use that line under the heading [pcbasic]. As it is, you are defining a preset named preset

[Anonymous]

I have attempted to change another line in the configuration file, resulting in the same error message. All I did this time is remove the "#" from the contrl-c-break=True line.