Raspberry Pi Again

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Ric
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Raspberry Pi Again

Post by Ric »

I have tried to get bbcsdl on my third Pi4 and all goes well until the command:
chmod +x bbcsdl
I have typed chmod /home/ricspi4/BB4WRasperryPi4/bbcsdl
and the result is "missing operand after '/home/ricspi4/BB4WRasperryPi4/bbcsdl' "
Can some one help

Kind regards Ric
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6502 back in the day, BB4W 2017 onwards, BBCSDL from 2023
Richard Russell
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Re: Raspberry Pi Again

Post by Richard Russell »

Ric wrote: Sat 01 Feb 2025, 22:30 I have typed chmod /home/ricspi4/BB4WRasperryPi4/bbcsdl
and the result is "missing operand after '/home/ricspi4/BB4WRasperryPi4/bbcsdl' "
You missed out the +x:

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chmod +x /home/ricspi4/BB4WRasperryPi4/bbcsdl
Also, shouldn't it be BB4WRaspberryPi4 not BB4WRasperryPi4?

The machine won't care, but it doesn't help my poor brain that you have 'BB4W' in the directory name when it has nothing whatever to do with BBC BASIC for Windows! ;)

On my own Raspberry Pi installations the directory in which I've installed BBCSDL is BBCSDL so I would do:

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chmod +x ~/BBCSDL/bbcsdl
Ric
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Re: Raspberry Pi Again

Post by Ric »

Thanks Richard,
The rasperry was just a typo!
I use BB4W because i do it on auto pilot, all programming i do is on BB4W with the exception of the Pis.
Probably not the best solution going forward, but its what ive gotten used to.
Kind regards Ric
Kind Regards Ric.

6502 back in the day, BB4W 2017 onwards, BBCSDL from 2023
Richard Russell
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Re: Raspberry Pi Again

Post by Richard Russell »

Ric wrote: Sun 02 Feb 2025, 18:55 I use BB4W because...
I wasn't questioning your use of BB4W, if there are good reasons to do so, but the appropriateness of a Raspberry Pi (i.e. Linux) directory name containing BB4W which refers specifically to Windows. :?

With what's left of my memory requiring constant refreshing, and my own use of BBC BASIC for Windows having diminished to almost zero, the extent to which I can provide support for it is now very limited (generally I just consult the manual, the Wiki or the Windows API documentation).

Mind you my ability to support LB Booster is even worse. :(