<TITLE>Chipmunk Basic Readme</TITLE>Chipmunk Basic is an old-fashioned Basic InterpreterChipmunk Basic 3.6.1 is free for educational and non-commercialdistribution and use (but only for those who don't believe that usingthe BASIC language causes brain damage. :-)Chipmunk Basic comes with limited documentation and a contributed nroffman page; but the language is mostly compatible with the many books onprogramming in BASIC that were circa 1978 thru 1990.  Line numbers arerequired for program entry via the console, but line numbers are notrequired on Basic programs loaded from text files.Release notes:Version 3.6.1: changed exponentiation precedence, default mat origin               added mat print commandVersion 3.6.0: added exit status, fn kill(), fn bigendian(),The previous releases added support for exit() status & fn kill() for filedeletion; also support for fn pid(), fn sysfork(), and for opening unixpipes and sockets.  Also included were bug fixes for instr(), val(".."),block if ():endif, and for a potential buffer overrun.Please report any bugs that you find to <mailto:rhn@nicholson.com>.Information on Chipmunk Basic may also be found on the WWW at:  <http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic>  /* Chipmunk Basic is (c) Copyright 1994,2004 Ronald H. Nicholson, Jr. * ALL RIGHTS RESERVED * * Permission to use, copy and distribute this software without fee * for non-commercial or educational purposes is hereby granted, provided * that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both * the copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting * documentation. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND; not even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. */