[Coco] OS9 HEX to DECIMAL conversion.

[Wayne Campbell]

The problems with passing parameters to procedures within Basic09 from the
command line are:

If the procedure is not packed and the source file has a different name
than the procedure, the result will be a 216 error (file not found). Ex.
Procedure myProc, filename myProc.src

Shell+ will take everything after the Basic09 app name and make it a single
string (Ex. "myProc(8,2)"). Basic09 will see this as the procedure name and
report a 43 error (procedure not found).

There may be other issues as well, but I am unable at this time to do
exhaustive testing.

Wayne

On Mon, May 21, 2018, 11:17 AM James Jones <jejones3141 at gmail.com> wrote:

> PARAM, not PRAM. (Fought off the urge to make an English nanny joke.)
>
> About what to type at the command line: that's a bit more interesting. You
> can run either a packed or non-packed version of the code with
>
> basic09 add(5,8)
>
> (and the parameters don't have to be strings, based on the example in the
> manual). OTOH, once you pack the procedure so that you can put it in your
> execution directory and invoke it from the shell which will fire up runb,
> I'm not sure whether you would use the same syntax or would have to type
>
> add 5 8
>
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