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Re: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:22 am
by NormanDunbar
Morning All,

does anyone know of a command 'JOB%' and which toolkit it might be in? It is cross referenced from the JOBID command (https://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.i ... jobid.html) and I'd like to either remove the link or add the command.

Also, there's a toolkit called Beuletools. It seems to have a lot of commands for setting up Epson (?) printers and one of the commands much cross referenced is ESC. Unfortunately, ESC is not mentioned anywhere. Does anyone have details of this command that you can send me, I'll do the necessary - and attempt to fix all the cross-references.

There may be more, but these are the ones I know about at present.


Cheers,
Norm.

PS. I fixed a few other problems this AM, and there's been a successful build.

Re: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 10:29 am
by RWAP
NormanDunbar wrote: Also, there's a toolkit called Beuletools. It seems to have a lot of commands for setting up Epson (?) printers and one of the commands much cross referenced is ESC. Unfortunately, ESC is not mentioned anywhere. Does anyone have details of this command that you can send me, I'll do the necessary - and attempt to fix all the cross-references.
If you look at the toolkits I uploaded a few posts back, there is a German Beuletools_doc in there.

ESC is a function which returnss CHR$(27)
There are others such as FF (returns CHR$(12) ) etc to make it easier to write Epson control codes.

Re: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 10:55 am
by NormanDunbar
Thanks Rich,

I've fixed it. There will be a build later when I do some more stuff.


Cheers,
Norm.

Re: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:26 am
by pjw
NormanDunbar wrote:does anyone know of a command 'JOB%' and which toolkit it might be in? It is cross referenced from the JOBID command

My guess is its just a typo for JOB$

Re: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 12:59 pm
by NormanDunbar
Thanks Per, that's good enough.

Fixed and building/built.


Cheers,
Norm.

Re: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 7:46 am
by QLvsJAGUAR
Is this project still being maintained?

The PDF download is the same as it was 2 years ago. The "Builds" page https://readthedocs.org/projects/superb ... al/builds/ reports the last build 2 years, 4 months ago.

I have a very small contribution, a wording error in
42.2.9 A7.2.9 Keywords Which are Useful in SBASICs
the second sentence "DEVTPYE allows you to find out is a channel is OPEN." looks wrong to me. What about changing it to "DEVTPYE allows you to find out if a channel is OPEN."

Small improvements make the world a better place. :-)

Re: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:04 pm
by NormanDunbar
Yes it's being updated as people send me stuff. No updates for two years = nothing received for that period.

I'll fix the problem you've noted, thanks.


Cheers,
Norm.

Re: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:13 pm
by NormanDunbar
This has been fixed and there is an automated build in progress. Once it finishes, check Appendix 7, scroll to the bottom and see if the error is gone. If not, refresh the browser and hopefully, it will be. You might be able to checkl the progress of the build at https://readthedocs.org/projects/superb ... al/builds/ -- the version youare interested in is "latest". If it says "Building" then it is not complete.

I say might because that may require you to login as an admin, ie me, but give it a try and see what, if anything, happens!

Once updated, you can download another PDF if necessary.

Thanks again for the pointer to the required fix.


Cheers,
Norm.

Re: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:24 pm
by NormanDunbar
Forget the above, the build has now completed. And the bug is fixed.

DEVTYPE allows you to find out if a channel is OPEN.

Cheers,
Norm.

Re: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 1:50 pm
by NormanDunbar
Afternoon All.

Just a quick update. I've upgraded the Online SuperBASIC Manual at https://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ to include Derek's recent comments about the MACHINE command (https://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.i ... chine.html) beuing a bit out of date.

In doing so, I had to fix a few other problems as the last update was over a year and a half ago. Read The Diocs has made some changes which I should have been informed about, but I have no records of such changes.

I've added back the ability to get a PDF and/or an EPUB version of the docs:
  • Open the manual, https://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.
  • At the bottom of the left sidebar. You will see "Readthe Docs v:Latest" and a downward arrow.
  • Click the downward arrow.
  • Click on PDF or EPUB as required.
  • If you do not see those options, Click on "Downloads"
  • Choose PDF or EPUB as desired.

Cheers,
Norm.