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Thank you so much infratec! That makes much more sense, thank you

Hi,

PB 6.21
macOS 15.6.1 (although ideally I'd love for this to work on Win and Linux too at some stage)

I know that this has been discussed before, but to be honest I did not understand the solutions and some don't work on macOS anyway (ie simulating a DoEvents with an embedded mini ...

This appears to be resolved now (for me at least)

macOS 15.6.1, PB
IDE build on 06/09/2025 [15:50] by fred
Branch: v6.21 Revision: f84e3797a718

@piero
I tried hard coding ls -l /Users and that gave me the same error
How dare you write such a blasphemy? :x (I'm kidding)
:D

PS/Edit:
Just in case: I noticed you use a "Break" in your code; do you know that CloseProgram does not quit it?

I am an eternal relearner of PB ;) I use it for ...

Hi, thank you both. Will try these solutions out and let you know how I get on.

@piero - I'm afraid that I can't get it to work, even when using one of the two shell procs you have on that thread.

When I pass the command to Shell() single quoted, I get:
Error: /bin/sh: line 1: tar --zstd -xvf "/Users/xxx/Desktop/vcv/v2/test_file_1.vcv" -C /tmp/ patch.json: No such file or ...

Thanks

Hi,

macOS 15.6, Apple Silicon

I'm trying to get RunProgram to run the following command (filename will vary) which works fine from Terminal (ie a JSON file is extracted and placed in /tmp)


tar --zstd -xvf "/Users/xxxx/Desktop/vcv/v2/some file name.vcv" -C /tmp/ patch.json


But I get this ...

Oh thanks, I had no idea these differed between OSes. Will look at the proposed solution above, thank you.

Hi,

I've just installed PureBasic 6.21 on ZorinOS 17.3 (based on Ubuntu 22.04).

An old program of mine which compiles fine under macOS 15.6 (and whatever OS X version was current when I wrote this 6 years ago) fails with this error on the above Linux:

[COMPILER] Line 49: Constant not found #PB ...

I can confirm what mk-soft has already stated, that disabling the session history has no effect.

Another problem occurred as I was testing this - I opened PB on my built in screen, opened the Settings form and dragged it onto my main monitor (I have 1 external monitor linked via HDMI on a USB hub ...

I'm not sure whether this is a problem unique to myself or not, but I've noticed that since upgrading* macOS to Sequoia 15.4 (24E248), CMD-Q hangs PB after which I have to force quit it via the Finder. Using the Quit menu item in the main PB menu however exits cleanly without error.

This happens ...

These are the ones I've used a lot over the years - I've dabbled with many others, as I'm most of us have:

Sinclair ZX81 BASIC
Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC
BBC BASIC (Acorn BBC Micro, Windows)
Amstrad CPC BASIC (Locomotive?)
Sinclair QL SuperBASIC (my favourite, still use it on Q68, a modern super-QL ...

C'est très généreux, merci

No idea what that eror means either, but it's all helpful for Fred to debug with.

I also tested 5.70LTS on my ageing 2010 MBP running High Sierra - all fine there too, I was able to compile and debug various small programs.


Just on a side note, SpiderBasic 2.21 also works fine on both systems. So ...