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RE: [Yabasic-users] RE: Suggestion of improvement of Yabasic (ROQ UES Arnaud - NTR)

[Busby, J. <jac...@ha...>]

Im using PS2/YABASIC so this may be available already, but reserved keywords
for TRUE (=1) and FALSE (=0) wouldn't go amiss.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dejan Lekic [mailto:le...@en...]
> Sent: 06 April 2001 22:38
> To: yab...@li...
> Subject: [Yabasic-users] RE: Suggestion of improvement of Yabasic
> (ROQUES Arnaud - NTR)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> THANKS!
> We will keep in mind that! :)
> 
> If anyone else have suggestions, comments, PLEASE send 'em here! 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Dejan
> 
> 
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[Yabasic-users] YaBASIC 2.691 bug report

[Dejan L. <le...@en...>]

When I tried to run yabdemo.yab yabasic reported an error:

"
tSYMBOL
---Error in D:\bin\yabasic\yabdemo.yab,7: parse error at ""screenwidth""
---Error: Program not executed
---Program done, press RETURN---
"

The seventh line in yabdemo.yab is:
sw=3Dpeek("screenwidth"):sh=3Dpeek("screenheight")

Best regards


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[Yabasic-users] Problems with YaBASIC site

[Dejan L. <le...@en...>]

I hope Marc is reading this...

- There is bad link in upper frame that links to "http://www.yabasic.de/yab...@li..."
The link should be : "http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/yabasic-users"

I think it is time to make some YaBASIC repository on www.yabasic.de so people can post and share their code.

Best regards

Dejan Lekic
developer, MySQL DBA, sysadmin
http://dl.9mb.net

[Yabasic-users] subscribe

[Sanda <sa...@9m...>]

[Yabasic-users] X11-Basic (or "How people copy US)

[Dejan L. <le...@en...>]

Hi to all,
today I saw an announcement of X11Basic 0.3 and if You have enough time, PLEASE visit http://cip.physik.uni-bonn.de/~hoffmann/X11-Basic/x11basic.html and see how that guy has copied Marc-Oliver's YaBASIC manual! :)))

Am I wrong or we are popular=3F ;)

Dejan Lekic
YaBASIC developer, MySQL DBA, sysadmin
http://dl.9mb.net

[Yabasic-users] RE: Suggestion of improvement of Yabasic (ROQUES Arnaud - NTR)

[Dejan L. <le...@en...>]

THANKS!
We will keep in mind that! :)

If anyone else have suggestions, comments, PLEASE send 'em here! 

Best regards

Dejan

[Yabasic-users] Suggestion of improvement of Yabasic

[ROQUES A. - N. <Arn...@se...>]

Hello!

I have a few (more) suggestion for yabasic.


- An instruction SWAP used to swap variable contents:

SWAP a,b
would be equivalent to:
dummy=a : a=b: b=dummy

Of course, SWAP a$,b$ would be possible too, as well as
SWAP a(i), a(i+1)
which would be usefull for sorting subroutine.

- a new peek$():
PEEK$("librarypath")
would return the current librarypath (ie c:\yabasic\lib\
or /usr/yabasic/lib/ or whatever passed with "-librarypath")

- a extension of TIME$
TIME$(a$) would return the same thing that the C function strftime.
So if I want the current day, I just call TIME$("%d").
or TIME$("%H:%M") for just the current hour and minutes.

Regards,

Arnaud.

[Yabasic-users] www.yabasic.co.uk

[Dejan L. <le...@en...>]

Today I saw on old YaBASIC mailing list that some guys created www.yabasic.co.uk site. It's for all PS2 users/programmers. Please take a look, maybe You can find something interested there.

Sure, if You have some site that is NOT on www.yabasic.de list of YaBASIC related sites PLEASE send URL to this List and we will take care of it!

Dejan Lekic
le...@us...

[Yabasic-users] Does Marc-Oliver read mails on this list? :)

[Dejan L. <le...@en...>]

Hi to all,
today I was wandering if Marc reads postings on this list... where the hack is he! :)))

Marc, there are some news, please take a look at http://www.sourceforge.net/foundry/basic I have added You there...

Best regards to all

Dejan Lekic

[Yabasic-users] Malloc problem, Yabasic under Windows 98

[Steve L. <ste...@ho...>]

Hello everybody,

A few days back, I posted a question about a problem I have encountered.
Under Windows 98, yabasic cannot handle large numbers of subroutine calls
with large numbers of parameters. Virtual memeory is gradually eaten up, and
eventually the program fails with a malloc error.

I have found that the problem also happens if large numbers of subroutine
calls are made and there large numbers of local variables declared within
the subroutine. My programs call many different subroutines, each with a few
local variables. The algorithm is repeated a few hundred thousand times (its
an optimisation program for a multi-variable problem). I can reproduce the
problem with a simple piece of code which uses a single subroutine, called a
few million times. To show the fault more quickly, you can set the upper
limit for your virtual memory to say 300Mb. On my PC, that means the the
problem happens after only 75,000 subroutine calls.

Has anybody else seen this problem with local variable space not being
released? How do I resolve it?

Thanks, Steve

>>>>>>>
REM
REM Some preliminary tasks
REM
clear screen:open window 100,30:window origin "lb"

REM
REM To demo the problem, we must call a function many times
REM
for Counter = 1 to 10000000
   DoSomeWork()
   REM
   REM Display the loop counter so that we can see how far the program has
got
   REM
   clear window
   text 10,10, str$(Counter)
next Counter

REM
REM Tidy up and finish. If the fault happens, the user never gets this
far....
REM
inkey$():close window

sub DoSomeWork()
   local
a1,b1,c1,d1,e1,f1,g1,h1,i1,j1,k1,l1,m1,n1,o1,p1,q1,r1,s1,t1,u1,v1,w1,x1,y1,z
1
   local
a2,b2,c2,d2,e2,f2,g2,h2,i2,j2,k2,l2,m2,n2,o2,p2,q2,r2,s2,t2,u2,v2,w2,x2,y2,z
2
   local
a3,b3,c3,d3,e3,f3,g3,h3,i3,j3,k3,l3,m3,n3,o3,p3,q3,r3,s3,t3,u3,v3,w3,x3,y3,z
3
   local
a4,b4,c4,d4,e4,f4,g4,h4,i4,j4,k4,l4,m4,n4,o4,p4,q4,r4,s4,t4,u4,v4,w4,x4,y4,z
4
   local
a5,b5,c5,d5,e5,f5,g5,h5,i5,j5,k5,l5,m5,n5,o5,p5,q5,r5,s5,t5,u5,v5,w5,x5,y5,z
5
   local
a6,b6,c6,d6,e6,f6,g6,h6,i6,j6,k6,l6,m6,n6,o6,p6,q6,r6,s6,t6,u6,v6,w6,x6,y6,z
6
   local
a7,b7,c7,d7,e7,f7,g7,h7,i7,j7,k7,l7,m7,n7,o7,p7,q7,r7,s7,t7,u7,v7,w7,x7,y7,z
7
   local
a8,b8,c8,d8,e8,f8,g8,h8,i8,j8,k8,l8,m8,n8,o8,p8,q8,r8,s8,t8,u8,v8,w8,x8,y8,z
8
   local
a9,b9,c9,d9,e9,f9,g9,h9,i9,j9,k9,l9,m9,n9,o9,p9,q9,r9,s9,t9,u9,v9,w9,x9,y9,z
9
   REM
   REM ....here is where we would normally do lots of work....
   REM
end sub

[Yabasic-users] BASIC foundry on SourceForge

[Dejan L. <le...@en...>]

Hi to all

today I became administrator of BASIC foundry on SourceForge...

https://sourceforge.net/foundry/basic

I've added than Marc-Oliver into it, and that will be the main place for all BASIC-related OpenSource projects on SourceForge.

I hope YaBASIC will get popular that way...

Best regards

Dejan Lekic

Re: [Yabasic-users] malloc error, yabasic 2.66-5 under Windows 98

[Steve L. <sr...@hf...>]

Ops, sorry...my previous mail message should say version 2.680

Steve

[Yabasic-users] malloc error, yabasic 2.66-5 under Windows 98

[Steve L. <sr...@hf...>]

I have a program which fails like this:

---Fatal in test.txt,28: Can't malloc 32 bytes of memory
---Immediate exit to system, due to a fatal error
---Program done, press RETURN---

Has anybody else encountered this? Do you know how to prevent it?

My program is not complicated but it does take some hours to execute. I
noticed that the disk drive access light flashed all the time, even though
there is no file access in the program. Since malloc is the C construct for
dynamic allocation of memory, the continuous disk accesses made me suspect
that the Windows Swap file is being gradually filled up, eventually causing
the failure when the disk becomes full.

After some experimentation, I was able to produce a simple program to
demonstrate the problem (below). The program makes millions of calls to a
subroutine, each time passing a large number of parameters. The more
parameters there are, the sooner the program fails. Also, if I configure
Windows so that the maximum swap file size is smaller than usual, the
program fails sooner. With a maximum swap file of 300Mb, the program fails
after only a few hundred thousand iterations.

Thanks for any advice on how to resolve this problem,
Steve

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
REM
REM Some preliminary tasks
REM
clear screen:open window 100,30:window origin "lb"

REM
REM To demo the suspected bug, we must call a function many times with
several parameters
REM
T1$ = ""
for C1 = 1 to 100000000

DoSomeWork(C1,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1
$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$,T1$)
next C1

REM
REM Tidy up and finish. If the fault happens, the user never gets this
far....
REM
inkey$():close window

sub
DoSomeWork(N,P1$,P2$,P3$,P4$,P5$,P6$,P7$,P8$,P9$,P10$,P11$,P12$,P13$,P14$,P1
5$,P16$,P17$,P18$,P19$,P20$,P21$,P22$,P23$,P24$)
   REM
   REM Display the loop counter so that we can see how far the program has
got
   REM
   clear window
   text 10,10, str$(N)

   REM
   REM ....here is where we would normally do lots of work....
   REM
end sub

[Yabasic-users] FINALLY!

[Dejan L. <le...@en...>]

Hi to all!
I am REALLY sorry about everything, but (obviously) Marc is allways at work and he doesn't have enough time to read this mailing list :(

I have lost my passwords for YaBASIC Mailing list, but i have suddenly remembered 'em today! So, we can continue!

I don't have access to www.yabasic.de so i decided to work on http://yabasic.sourceforge.net so that will probably be unofficial YaBASIC site. Remember all sources download from www.yabasic.de and SourceForge please! :)

I intend to make som kind of "reposotory" where YaBASIC programmers can put their code, share libraries etc. There will be vote so we can vote for new YaBASIC features and so on.

I need Your opinion, suggesions etc about that.

Best regards

Dejan