BASIC.HELPCMD.D1

BASIC                                                              CMS Command
 
Acronym for Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, runs CALL-OS
BASIC as supplied with VM/370 R1.
+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| BASIC    | fn [( <LONG> [)]                                                |
+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
where:
 
fn      Is the filename of the file to be run. It must have a filetype
        of BASIC.
 
option:
 
LONG    Tells BASIC to use LONG form numbers.
 
For more details see
 
GC20-1803-1 VM370 BASIC Language Reference Manual Rel 1
 
which may be downloaded from BITSAVERS in the folder
 
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/370/VM_370/Release_1/