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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.