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Hi Moulder,

Well I had prepared a nice long explanation - got interrupted - clicked save draft - but now I can't find the draft.

Short version: I started this project pre-covid using rather expensive cross platform compatible software - it works just great - but I can't keep spending that kind of ...

Hi,

Thanks for the info.

I finally got around to digging more into this and found the following.

I am able to run purebasic in Debian 12 but only after I followed these instructions...

taken from:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/536752/missing-desktop-files-or-folders-on-debian-10-but-i ...

OK - so I just downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu Desktop. Loaded into VirtualBox.
Followed all the instructions as I did on the Debian images.
On Ubuntu it works - even the desktop icon.
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Must be something else in the version of Debian 64bit causing it not to work. I tried ...

Sorry I should have been more clear in my original post.

That was three different attempts in three different routines.
I must have had a typo somewhere - it could have been a hidden character.
After I tried several more times, I was able to get the code to work using any of the three methods.

My ...

Thanks for responding...

Just now I tried again - I downloaded using firefox on a new install of Debian12 (VirtualBox)

'Did you also unpack the package with Linux and not with Windows or macOS?'
yes

'Also installed the developer pack. The IDE requires the libwebkit2gtk in any case'
yes

'You can ...

I'm having difficulty trying to run purebasic on Linux (Debian). Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I've tried a vm in TrueNas on Debian 10 and 12 and also in VirtualBox (on mac with Debian 10) and the appropriate versions of purebasic in each case.

I've followed the INSTALL instructions on each and ...

testFile$ = "myTestFile"
testFileID1 = 101 ; -- as a variable
#testFileID2 = 101 ; -- as a constant

;--------------------------------------------------------
If ReadFile(0,testFile$)
Format = ReadStringFormat(0) ; -- works
;--------------------------------------------------------
If ReadFile ...