Basic compiler errors
Basic runtime errors
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BASIC.SV @CALLING COMMANDS: .BASIC .R BASIC @INTERNAL COMMANDS: BYE EXIT FROM BASIC LIST LIST CURRENT PROGRAM'S STATEMENTS NAME RENAME CURRENT PROGRAM NEW PREPARE FOR A NEW PROGRAM OLD RETRIEVE AN OLD PROGRAM RUN RUN CURRENT PROGRAM SAVE SAVE CURRENT PROGRAM SCRATCH DELETE CURRENT PROGRAM On startup basic may prompt: NEW OR OLD--. If you answer new it will prompt for filename to use when saving. If you answer old it will prompt for filename to load. Filenames are DEV:FILE with .BA extension the default. Some versions of basic require the end statement as the last program line or will give a ME error. Just put in statement 9999 END .HELP BCOMP PRINTS BASIC COMPILER ERROR MESSAGES .HELP BRTS PRINTS BASIC RUN-TIME ERROR MESSAGES BCOMP.SV (ERRORS) @ERRORS: CH ERROR IN CHAIN STATEMENT DE ERROR IN DEF STATEMENT DI ERROR IN DIM STATEMENT FN ERROR IN FILE NUMBER OR FILE NAME FP INCORRECT FOR STATEMENT FR ERROR IN FUNCTION ARGS IF ERROR IN IF STATEMENT IO I/O ERROR LS MISSING EQUALS SIGN IN LET LT STATEMENT TOO LONG MD MULTIPLY DEFINED LINE NUMBER ME MISSING END STATEMENT MO OPERAND EXPECTED AND NOT FOUND MP PARENTHESIS ERROR MT OPERAND OF MIXED TYPE NF NEXT STATEMENT WITHOUT FOR NM MISSING LINE NUMBER OF OUTPUT FILE ERROR PD PUSHDOWN STACK OVERFLOW QS STRING LITERAL TOO LONG SS SUBSCRIPT OR FUNCTION ARG ERROR ST SYMBOL TABLE OVERFLOW SY SYSTEM INCOMPLETE TB PROGRAM TOO BIG TD TOO MUCH DATA IN PROGRAM TS TOO MANY CHARS IN STRING LITERALS UD ERROR IN UDEF STATEMENT UF FOR STATEMENT WITHOUT NEXT US UNDEFINED STATEMENT NUMBER UU USE STATEMENT ERROR XC EXTRA CHARS AFTER LOGICAL END OF LINE BRTS.SV (ERRORS) @ERRORS: BO NO MORE FILE BUFFERS AVAILABLE CI INQUIRE FAILURE IN CHAIN. DEVICE NOT FOUND CL LOOKUP FAILURE IN CHAIN. FILENAME NOT FOUND. CX CHAIN ERROR DA ATTEMPT TO READ PAST END OF DATA LIST DE DEVICE DRIVER ERROR DO NO MORE ROOM FOR DRIVERS DV ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE BY 0 EF LOGICAL END OF FILE EM ATTEMPT TO RAISE A NEGATIVE NUMBER TO A REAL POWER EN ENTER ERROR FB ATTEMPT TO USE A FILE ALREADY IN USE FC CLOSE ERROR FE FETCH ERROR FI ATTEMPT TO CLOSE OR USE AN UNOPENED FILE FM ATTEMPT TO FIX NEGATIVE NUMBER FN ILLEGAL FILE NUMBER FO ATTEMPT TO FIX NUMBER GREATER THAN 4095 GR RETURN WITHOUT A GOSUB GS TOO MANY NESTED GOSUBS IA ILLEGAL ARGUMENT IN UDEF FUNCTION CALL IF ILLEGAL DEV:FILENAME SPECIFICATION IN INQUIRE FAILURE IO TTY INPUT BUFFER OVERFLOW LM ATTEMPT TO TAKE LOG OF A NEGATIVE NUMBER OE DRIVER ERROR WHILE OVERLAYING OV NUMERIC OR INPUT OVERFLOW PA ILLEGAL ARGUMENT IN POS FUNCTION RE ATTEMPT TO READ PAST END OF FILE SC STRING TOO LONG AFTER CONCATENATING SL STRING TOO LONG OR UNDEFINED SR ATTEMPT TO READ STRING FROM NUMERIC FILE ST STRING TRUNCATION ON INPUT SU SUBSCRIPT OUT OF DIM STATEMENT RANGE SW ATTEMPT TO WRITE STRING INTO NUMERIC FILE VR ATTEMPT TO READ VARIABLE LENGTH FILE WE ATTEMPT TO WRITE PAST END OF FILE
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