At last, I have FROST BASIC online, in uuencoded, SHRUNK form.
Because of the large number of requests, I will post it.  The file is
about 100K bytes long, so I have broken it into four parts.  They will
appear, hopefully, as the next four messages from me to the net.

Part 1 includes instructions for assembling the four parts.  Basically
(so to speak) you have put the parts back together, uudecode, and unSHRINK.
However, the full uuencoded file is over 100K bytes, which WILL NOT FIT on
a Single Density disk.  So you will have to use enhanced density or double
density, or else you will have to uudecode the four parts separately and
only then reassemble them.  That can be done with DOS using the /A "Append"
switch as you copy Parts 2, 3, and 4 in succession onto the tail end of the
file you are assembling.  Part 1 contains slightly more explicit instructions.
By the way, if you use the second method, it might be a good idea to
copy the assembled file to another file to get the "bubbles" out.  I.e.
when you copy with append, there typically are less than full sectors at
the junctions (except with the smarter DOSes), and when you copy the file
this gets corrected.

Owners of the XL or XE machines may want to capture this program (a) for
friends with an 800, or (b) in case YOU later get an 800, or (c) in case you
want to run Turbo BASIC with a DOS like SpartaDOS or DOS-XL or OS/A+, which
need space under the ROM and so are incompatible with Turbo BASIC XL.

Enjoy!  And thanks again to Ulrich Lang of West Germany, who very kindly
mailed the disk version of FROST BASIC across the Atlantic for our benefit.

Anybody who absolutely has to have a disk version mailed to them, please
notify me again and I will try to get it mailed in a few days.  I'll check my
files to see if anybody already told me they had to have a disk.  Please
try to manage to get the program via the net, perhaps with the help of a
local friend, but if you MUST have it mailed, I'll be glad to help you out.


========FROST=BASIC=for=the=Atari=800=Computers===by===FRank=OSTrowski========

FROST BASIC is a version of Turbo BASIC for the Atari 800, by FRank OSTrowski.
Thanks to Ulrich Lang of West Germany for mailing a disk version of this fine
Public Domain program for distribution to U.S. 800 owners.  It has been split
into four parts of approximately 25K bytes each to avoid mailer problems.
To reconstruct your own disk version, you must edit the four uuencoded files
into one long file of about 102,000 bytes, removing the dashed lines marking
the start and end of each part, then uudecode and download, and finally
convert back to a bootable disk using the UNSHRINK function of the PD program
SHRINK.COM.  Since 102,000 bytes won't fit on a Single Density Atari disk,
you will have to download to an enhanced density or double density disk.
If you don't have one, you can use Method Two, which is to download and
uudecode each part separately, then concatenate them using DOS "C" copy with
the /A "Append" switch.  I.e. C<RETURN> D1:PART1.SHR, FBASIC.SHR<RETURN>,
C<RETURN> D1:PART2.SHR, FBASIC.SHR/A<RETURN>, etc. etc. with /A on all but
the first.  The final SHRUNK (.SHR) file will be about 74K bytes, which WILL
fit on a SD disk, as it is 595 sectors.  Good luck!  -John Sangster,
jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa  (617) 271-3863 (w)  / (617) 235-8753 (h).