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On your PC, start the Palm Desktop and choose the Install Tool If you use more than one handheld with this PC, select the specific device to install picoBASIC on.
Click Add on the dialog. Navigate to the PBASICI.PRC file and select it.
Click Done on the selection dialog, then OK on the Install dialog. The PRC file will be installed to your handheld device the next time you HotSync with this PC. Using the same procedure, you may also choose to install any or all of the sample BASIC programs included with the distribution zip file.
BASIC Programs:
The programs that picoBASIC generates can be distributed to other handheld devices in the form of .PDB files. These files are automatically backed up to your desktop PC at HotSync time. They can then be installed to another handheld device in the same way as the .PRC file was installed (see above). Use the BASIC Files command to list the names of programs currently loaded on your device.
picoBASIC .PDB files consist of a set of records, each containing a line of BASIC code. Saving a BASIC program with the ,A option after the file name will save each line in non-tokenized (pure ASCII) format, suitable for printing or even loading into another BASIC environment.
It is also possible to import BASIC programs from another environment into picoBASIC (although there is no guarantee they will run without modification). There are several third party tools available that convert text files into the type of plain .PDB files used by picoBASIC.
Deleting picoBASIC
As with most PalmOS® applications, all of picoBASIC's programs will be removed if picoBASIC itself is deleted. Be sure to backup all of your picoBASIC programs first.
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