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- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!mv!tixel!jarnold
- From: jarnold@tixel.mv.com (Jon Arnold)
- Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
- Subject: Power BASIC
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <725030675snx@tixel.mv.com>
- References: <1992Dec22.042104.23875@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 13:24:35 GMT
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- Reply-To: jarnold@tixel.mv.com
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- >In article <1992Dec22.042104.23875@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org writes:
- > Well last time I asked, there was a discount for owners of TB! That was
- > only a few months ago. In fact, as a registered user of Turbo BASIC, you
- > should have gotten a notice in the mail, offering an upgrade! (This was a
- > couple of years back)
-
- I am a full bona fide registered owner of TB; I guess I'll have to call them
- back about this discount for upgrading to PB if that's what I want to do.
- I may have gotten an upgrade card for PB a few years ago, but I probably
- just dismissed it without reading it fully, assuming that it was just more
- advertising for yet another product, and my BASIC needs were already met.
- (So I thought).
-
- > Actually there are a number of other enhancemants. One of the simplest,
- > yet most important (to me!) is that there's a command line compiler! So
- > I can call PBC from a make file.
-
- Based on the PB review posted here, it appears that there are a great
- number of things that fall into the "enhancement" category!
-
- Jon
-