Hey Peter (PjotAwake)
EXCELLENT!
Exactly what I needed it to do
what I wanted to see the most is how the code translates
from bash to bacon for opening files and reading them line for line
for someone else that wants to try this
only edit two lines in bold text
the files.txt in my case I placed in
/tmp
so I just edited the directory /tmp/files.txt
remember that files.txt is a list of things you want to download
it could be anything files,pictures,packages....
compiled the bin and also placed the bin in /tmp
website$ = "
www.yourwebsite.org"
OPEN "
files.txt" FOR READING AS myconfig
this is great when I started with computers Qbasic was the way
I used to think in basic and was able to do some good things
when I started with linux everything looked cryptic
but I had to learn it I stopped writing in Qbasic around 2000
there were some commands such as
OUT that allowed direct access to the ports such as the parallel port
under MSDOS then everything moved to using dll and got more complex
I wrote code to control some stepper motors reading the keyboard as input a control interface circuit is needed to isolate the signals for high current devices but this type of control was possible in basic
I believe this is a great thing that a lot of good small fast code is written in basic that will be able to be compiled in linux
having a basic compiler for linux is very ,very needed
and the coding for many micro controllers is still in a form of basic
Thank you with your code example I will be busy for awhile
Joe