HotBasic(tm) Copyright 2003-2020 James J Keene PhD. All Rights Reserved.

LICENSE AGREEMENT
You are free to use the HotBasic Compiler Trial version for evaluation,
but written permission from the author is required for sale of this
program or packaging it in products for sale and for use in commercial
or governmental settings, including software developers who distribute
HotBasic-compiled executables.
By downloading these materials, you further agree not to post in any manner
for download the hotbasicxxx.zip file.
By downloading these files, you also agree to the licensing statement of
Microsoft Corporation included with their utilities.

SECURITY
hotbasicxxx.zip should be obtained only from the author, to avoid possible
malicious code which may be inserted into unauthorized copies which might
be obtained elsewhere.
hot_bin.zip contains files exactly as provided by Microsoft Corportation.
Note: Microsoft Corporation has provided a wonderful public service to the
computing world by providing several utilities free, used to "put the pieces
together" in HotBasic compilation.

INSTALLATION
I have packaged the materials crudely but perhaps befitting needs at this
stage.

Files That You Download Only Once because they will not be changed.
If you already have these files, please do not download them again. Thank you.
  hot_bin.zip 578K

If your HotBasic (HB) directory is, say, c:\hotbasic, then hotbasicxxx.zip is unzipped
into that working directory.  hot_bin.zip should unpack to a subdirectory -- bin.
For example, pkunzip -d hot_bin should work.  hotcheck.bat may be used to check
your setup.

hb.bat contains the HotBasic directory which may be edited to fit the drive
and name you actually use.  Once that hb.bat is correct, you can copy it to
any drive/directory where your .bas projects are located.  .bas files can be
put in the hot directory and compile, also.  Often, it is convenient to have
files associated with each project in their own directory.  Then in that
directory, you just type "hb myprog".  Notice that the HotBasic Compiler
hot.exe assumes the default program file extension of .bas if none is specified,
as in the example above.

Do not put HotBasic or your program source code in paths that contain spaces,
e.g., "Program Files" or "My Documents".

HotBasic is generally backward-compatible with RapidQ Basic and therefore the
RQ documentation may be helpful.  The .html version seems more complete than
the .chm version.

Thank you very much for trying HotBasic.

Cordially, James Keene PhD
