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BBASICPREP
Compiles and prepares an HP Business BASIC/V program in compatibility
mode. HP Business BASIC/V is not part of the 900 Series HP 3000 Computer
System Fundamental Operating Software and must be purchased separately.
Syntax
BBASICPREP infile[,[progfile][,listfile]]
Parameters
infile Actual file designator of the BSAVE file containing
the HP Business BASIC/V program to be compiled.
Formal file designator is BBCIN.
progfile Actual file designator of the program file to which
the prepared program segments are written. When
progfile is omitted, the MPE segmenter creates the
program file, which resides in the temporary file
domain as $OLDPASS. If you do create your own
program file, you must do so in one of two ways:
* By using the BUILD command and specifying a
file code of 1029 or PROG and a numextents
value of 1. This file is then used by the
PREP command.
* By specifying a nonexistent file in the
progfile parameter, in which case a
temporary job file of the correct size and
type is created.
listfile Actual file designator of the file on which the
program listing is written. This can be any ASCII
output file. Formal file designator is BBCLIST.
Default is $STDLIST.
NOTE The formal file designators used in this command (BBCIN and
BBCLIST) cannot be backreferenced as actual file designators in the
command parameter list. For further information, refer to the
"Implicit FILE Commands for Subsystems" discussion of the FILE
command.
Operation Notes
The BBASICPREP command compiles and prepares a program from a BSAVE file
generated by the HP Business BASIC/V interpreter. If you omit the
progfile parameter, the prepared program segments are stored in the
systemcdefined temporary file $OLDPASS. If you want to save the prepared
program in a file other than $OLDPASS, you may either create a file and
specify its file name on the BBASICPREP command line, or specify a
nonexistent progfile.
A BSAVE program file can be created from within the HP Business BASIC/V
interpreter after it is written, by using the HP Business BASIC/V
interpreter >SAVE filename command. The program may be compiled with the
BBASICOMP command, then prepared with the PREP command, and executed with
the RUN command.
Use
This command may be issued from a session, job, or program. It may not
be used in BREAK. Pressing Break suspends the execution of this command.
Entering the RESUME command continues the execution.
Example
To compile and prepare a program named MYPROG from the HP Business
BASIC/V BSAVE file named MYCOMDS, and send the listing to the standard
list device, enter:
BBASICPREP MYCOMDS,MYPROG
Related Information
Commands BBASIC, BBASICGO, BBASICOMP
Manuals HP Business BASIC/XL Reference Manual (32715-60001)
MPE Segmenter Reference Manual (32650-60026)