## Name

BASIC09 — Basic interpreter and compilerBasic09 language system

## Synopsis

`basic09` [`filename`]

## Description

The Auto-run feature allows BASIC09 to get the name of a file to load and run from the same command line used to call BASIC09. The file loaded and run can be either a SAVED file (in the data directory), or a PACKED file (in the execution directory). The file may contain several procedures; the one executed is the one with the same name as the file. Parameters may be passed following the pathname specified.

Once one or more BASIC09 procedures are debugged to the programmer's satisfaction, they can be “packed” or converted permanently to bytecode form. Comments and names of local variables are discarded during packing, so that in BASIC09, comments and intelligible variable names are not considered a burden to be avoided in the name of efficiency.

## Examples

    OS9: BASIC09
    READY
    B:bye

    OS9: BASIC09 printreport("Past Due Accounts")

    OS9: BASIC09 evaluate(COS(7.8814)/12.075,-22.5,129.055)

## See Also

BASIC09 Programming Language Reference Manual