1. Introduction

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ScriptBasic is a BASIC language interpreter with several features that makes it unique. First of all ScriptBasic itself is free and is supported by the GNU LGPL licence. Note that the GNU LGPL licence applies only to ScriptBasic itself, while the modules interfacing 3rd party software may apply different licenses. For example the module interface code for the module T<bdb> is under LGPL, but the library it uses, namely the Berkeley DB is NOT LGPL!

ScriptBasic runs on Windows NT, Windows95, Linux, Tru64 UNIX and probably on many other platforms. ScriptBasic the ideal tool to write small scripts that gurus write in Perl. However you need not be a guru to powerfully program in ScriptBasic.

This is not the only situation to consider ScriptBasic. ScriptBasic can be a valuable tool for experts as well as a language interpreter ready to be built into their application. Read the list of ScriptBasic features and decide how you can use it.

This documentation is the User's Guide for the so-called STANDARD variation of the interpreter. This code runs on the command line, accepts command line arguments and runs a single program in a single process. Other variations exist, which are based on the same code but exhibit different interfaces to the system. Some features for those variations may be different, but most language features probably remain the same. The variation Eszter SB Application Engine is shipped with the ScriptBasic package and is embedding the interpreter into a multi-thread, single process web server. Other embedded variations are available from independent developers.

This document describes how to use the interpreter and the programming language.


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