NAME

       brandy - a portable BBC BASIC V interpreter

SYNOPSIS

       brandy    [-help]    [-size SIZE]   [-lib FILENAME]   [-load FILENAME]   [-path DIRECTORY[,DIRECTORY]...]
       [-quit FILENAME] [-chain FILENAME] [-ignore] [FILENAME]

DESCRIPTION

       Brandy is an interpreter for BBC BASIC V, the dialect of BASIC that Acorn Computers supplied  with  their
       ranges  of  desktop computers that use the ARM processor such as the Archimedes and Risc PC, and is still
       in use on these and compatibles.

       BASIC V is a much extended version of BBC BASIC. This was the BASIC used on the 6502-based BBC Micro that
       Acorn made during the 1980s.

OPTIONS

       -help  Print a summary of these options.

       -size SIZE
              Set  the size of the Basic workspace to SIZE bytes when starting the interpreter. The minimum size
              allowed is 10000 bytes and anything below this value will be  set  to  it.  The  maximum  size  is
              limited only by the environment in which the program is being run. The size may have a suffix of k
              to denote that the size is in kilobytes or m if it is in megabytes. For example, -size  100k  will
              set the workspace size to 100 kilobytes (102400 bytes) and -size 8m will set it to eight megabytes
              (8388608 bytes).

       -lib FILENAME
              Load Basic library FILENAME when the interpreter starts. This option can be repeated as many times
              as  required to load a number of libraries. This is equivalent to typing INSTALL “FILENAME” at the
              interpreter's command line. The libraries are loaded in the order given on the command line.  Note
              that the search order is the reverse of this.

       -load FILENAME
              Load Basic program FILENAME when the interpreter starts.

       -path DIRECTORY[,DIRECTORY]...
              This  specifies  a list of directories that the interpreter will search when looking for libraries
              and programs. The directory names are separated by commas. The pseudo-variable FILEPATH$ is set to
              this value.

       -quit FILENAME
              Load  and  run  the  Basic  program FILENAME.  Leave the interpreter when the program has finished
              running.

       -chain FILENAME
              Load and run the Basic program FILENAME.  Remain in the interpreter when the program has  finished
              running.

       -graphics
              Start  the  interpreter  with the screen in graphics mode in versions of the program which support
              graphics and the screen can be in either text or graphics modes.

       -ignore
              Ignore certain `unsupported feature' errors. By default the interpreter reports an error  whenever
              it  comes  across  a BASIC V feature that it does not support. This option allows some unsupported
              features that do not affect the basic running of the program to be ignored.

       FILENAME
              This is exactly equivalent to -chain.

       The case of the names of the options is ignored. It depends on  the  operating  system  under  which  the
       interpreter is running as to whether the names of files are case sensitive or insensitive.

FILES

       brandy                executable

       /usr/share/doc/brandy/examples
                             example BASIC programs

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/brandy full documentation

       Brandy's home page

              http://jaguar.orpheusweb.co.uk/branpage.html

       There  is  some very useful documentation for the BBC Micro available on the Internet. One very good site
       is The BBC Lives!  at:

              http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/

              or see http://sourceforge.net/projects/brandy/

AUTHOR

       David Daniels, with contributions from Darren Salt and Colin Tuckley

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to the bug tracker at http://sourceforge.net/projects/brandy

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 David Daniels.  Copyright (c) 2009, 2012 Colin Tuckley.  This is free  software;
       see  the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
       A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.