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by mapwiz
Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:33 pm
Forum: HOW-TOs
Topic: How to compile MapBasic from TextPad
Replies: 1
Views: 12166

Gah. Some of the folks on Mapinfo-L gave me a gentle reminder about the DOS "type" command, which I'd forgotten about completely. This would turn MBTextpad.bat into

@echo off
if %1 == %2 goto link
mapbasic -Nosplash -D %1
goto ckerr
:link
mapbasic -Nosplash -L %1
:ckerr
if exist %3 type %3

We ...
by mapwiz
Wed Jul 26, 2006 5:24 pm
Forum: HOW-TOs
Topic: How to compile MapBasic from TextPad
Replies: 1
Views: 12166

How to compile MapBasic from TextPad

I posted this to the MapInfo Mailing List in response to a user's query regarding the use of MapBasic(R) with TextPad.

In 2003, Niels Fahse posted a useful MapBasic syntax definition file to the TextPad website, but there isn't a good description for compiling and linking MapBasic code.

MapBasic ...