The BASICtools.exe is not compatable
with Win98. BASICtools.exe is generated by the Freewrap
utility which turns a Tcl program into a standalone executeable requiring
no other .DLLs or support programs.
There seems to be a bug in the Freewrap that does not support the calls to batch (.BAT) files that BASICtools uses to run the pre-processor.
When Tcl is installed on a Win98 system, and the Tcl source is run that way, it all functions normally. So that is the current work-around for Win98 systems. So to run BASICtools on Win98, you will need to install some version of TclTk. We like the MinGW version as it is pretty simple and requires only a few .DLLs. This is available at SourceForge.net, and we also have a copy on our server-
This is a self-extracting executeable that will install TclTk.
Once this is installed copy the BASICtools.tcl file to the \Program Files\Coridium\ directory
Change the Desktop shortcut for BASICtools from
C:\Program FIles\Coridium\BASICtools.exe to C:\Program FIles\Coridium\BASICtools.tcl
This will launch the Tcl source version which runs on Win98.
While this is not optimal, it does work, and will probably be required for Win98 to be used.