Zbasic Manual

Interactive BASIC Compiler by Andrew R. Gariepy, Scott Terry. David Overton. Greg Branche and Halbert Uang Documentation by Michael A. Gariepy ©Copyright1985. 1986. 1987 fA M.m.) ,j All Rights Reserved ZBasic'" is a Trademark of Zedcor. Inc. Fourth Edition: 4/87 First edition: 8/85 Seoond edition: 10185 Third edition: 5/86 TECHNICAL SUPPORT: 1-(602) 795-3996 Support hours: Monday-Friday, Noon to 5PM, Mountain Standard Time Zedcor provides free phone support. Be sure to have your invoice number and license agreement number ready. You may need them to get support. Also be sure you understand the problem dearly and describe ~ is simply as possible. His usually a good idea to test the problem a few times before calling. Sometimes it's just a syntax problem. Collect or toll free calls will not be accepted for technical support. In addition, you may contact us on the GEnie Information Service by sending electronic mail (EMAIL) to; ZBASIC. We check our mailbox semi-regularly and will respond to you via electronic mail. We also have topics set up on the various Round-Table Bulletin Boards for general information. Notes on the Fourth Edition This ed~ion of the ZBasic'" manual contains all the computer appendices. This includes the appendix for MS-DOS"', APPLE'" lie, IIc (DOS 3.3 and ProDOS), MACINTOSH"', CP/M'" and TRS-80'" Model 1, 3 and TRS-80 Model 4. The appendices are at the back of the manual and the new index includes entries for both the reference section and the appendices. His important to study the appendix for the computer you are using since there are usually enhancements and variations that are important to note. Acknowledgements Special thanks to John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz for creating BASIC, the easiest and most powerful of all the general purpose languages. To Joanne Gariepy for many late hours of ed~ing. An extra special thanks to the programming teams that have meant so much to the success of the product; Scott Terry, Dave Overton, Greg Branche and Hal Liang and to Thomas Dim~ri and David Cooper for their help with the MSDOS version. Special thanks to Karen Moesh and Leyla Blisard for making sure ZBasic gets mailed as fast as it does and to Apple Computer, Inc. for the Macintosh"', Laserwr~er"', MacDraw, and MacPaint graphic software and to Microsoft for Word"'; on which this entire manual was composed and printed (both text and graphics). Many thanks to the multitudes of ZBasic'" users who provided helpful suggestions for this fourth edition. Copyright Notice The ZBasic software and manual are © Copyright 1…