Console Mode editions updated to version 0.42

[Richard Russell]
[Richard Russell]
in Richard Russell's BBC BASICs
I have updated my Console Mode editions of BBC BASIC to version 0.42. The changes in this version are:
  • Added new command-line options: -help, -load and -quit:
    • -help lists a brief description of these options.
    • -load loads the (tokenised) program specified subsequently on the command line, but doesn't run it (it enters immediate mode).
    • -quit runs the subsequently-specified tokenised program, but when that program terminates (either normally or because of an error) quits rather than entering immediate mode. In the event of an error the exit code is set to the BBC BASIC error number.
  • Enabled the *FLOAT 80 command in ARM editions, because it's the only way of reading & writing 64-bit integers in a file!
  • Added two new libraries: socklib.bbc and mysqllib.bbc. These provide the same capabilities as the libraries with the same names supplied with BBC BASIC for Windows and BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0.
  • Added new example programs: client.bbc, server.bbc, lanchat.bbc and mysqldem.bbc. These work the same as the example programs with the same names supplied with BBC BASIC for Windows and BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0.

Version 0.42 may be downloaded from the usual place.

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