NOTES: THIS BASIC PACKAGE IS DIFFERENT THAN THE BASIC RELEASED WITH RSX11D OR IAS. THE I/O COMMANDS ARE MUCH MORE FLEXIBLE, AND ALLOW A WIDE RANGE OF ACCESS MODES. ALSO, THE LIBRARY FACILITIES ADDED BY THE M.R.H. PEOPLE ARE EXCELLENT FOR DATA ENTRY APPLICATIONS. WHEN BUILDING BASIC, NOTE THAT IT USES 'MO' FOR MESSAGE OUTPUT, AND REQUIRES A MESSAGE FILE. THIS FILENAME AND EXPECTED LOCATION ARE: [1,2]BASIC.MSG THIS IS CODED IN MODULE 'BASIC0'. NOTE THAT THIS FILE IS COMPOSED OF FIXED LENGTH RECORDS (64 BYTES) WHEN COPYING FROM MAGTAPE. A FLX SPECIFICATION WOULD BE: FLX> DB:/RS=MM0:[300,21]BASIC.MSG/IM:64./DO A BASIC PROGRAM EXISTS WHICH WILL AID IN THE ADDITION/CORRECTION OF THE ERROR MESSAGE FILE. IT IS 'MSGEN.BAS' (ALSO 'MSGCRE.BAS') NOTE*NOTE*NOTE* REMEMBER THAT THIS BASIC HAS BEEN HARDCODED TO USE THE FP11 FLOATING POINT UNIT. UNTIL AN ENTERPRISING PERSON INTERFACES THIS PACKAGE TO SOME FLOATING POINT SUBROUTINES, ONLY THOSE LUCKY PEOPLE WITH FP11 UNITS LUCK OUT (SORRY!). IF ANYONE DOES INTERFACE FP SUBROUTINES, PLEASE GET THEM INTO THE LIBRARY SO ALL CAN BENEFIT!!! BASIC IS DOCUMENTED VIA A RUNOFF FILE. THE RUNOFF FILE IS ACTUALLY CONTAINED IN THE SOURCE FILES THEMSELVES. TO BREAK OUT THE DOCUMENT- ATION, THE 'BASDOC.BAS' PROGRAM IS PROVIDED. HOWEVER, MICHAEL REESE'S VERSION OF BASIC IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT RELEASED BY DECK. IN ORDER TO CONVERT THE MICHAEL REESE RUNOFF FILE TO DEC RUNOFF (THE LIBRARY VERSION OF RUNOFF), USE THE INCLUDED TECO FILTER PROGRAM 'MRHRNO.TEC'. I.E. TEC @MRHRNO.TEC ENTER FILENAME TO CONVERT: BASIC.RNO THE SUPPLIED FILE 'BASIC.RNO' HAS ALREADY BEEN CONVERTED TO DEC FORMAT. 26-MAY-77: UPDATED SOURCES WERE INCLUDED FROM MRH (BUG FIXES, ETC)