Subject: Re: pbasic-2.0-950813.tar.gz + pbasic-2.0-950813.src.tar.gz uploaded
To: forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU!asami@_ERASE_tiger.gmrs.isar.de (Satoshi Asami)
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 16:28:23 +0200 (DST)
Cc: jhs@

> 
>  * I now hand the job over to you in entirety:
>  * 	You are now responsible for commiting a ports wrapper,
>  * 	& maintaining Phil Cockroft's Basic on FreeBSD.
> 
> Ok, that's fine for me!  Just committed!
> 
> Send me updates when he decides to release a new version, ok? :)
> 
> Satoshi
> 

Well if you want to have some help with the maintainance, I can be reached,
though I can't guarantee a quick answer, some of us work for a living.

I am also continually making small changes to it when I get bored,
unfortunately I don't seem to be getting bored too often at the moment :-( 

The no edit mode should not change the terminal modes but it does, it should
be reworked.

A manual page for it would be good, I can't remember everything that I have
put in it in the last 12 years.

For the future:

The next thing that I think should be put into place is the matrix
initialisation code so that I can say.

	mat a = idn(10, 10)

Which defines matrix a as a 10x10 identity matrix.

Will get around to it sometime (maybe). 

There is a bug when using the '.' matrix operator, the '.' must be seperated
from its preceding argument by a space otherwise it could mistake the
argument as a command word. I can't be bothered to fix it, it would mean
restructuring the whole code.

An Emacs mode front end would also be nice but I don't use emacs so it
isn't there. 

Phil.

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