BASIC programs can be compiled to a tokenized form, to C code or to an executable file.
The tokenized format is the internal format of ScriptBasic and this is always generated before executing a BASIC program. To speed up execution ScriptBasic is capable saving this code into cache files automatically. However in some situation you may want to save this format into a separate file. To do this you have to issue the command
scriba -no myprogram.bbf myprogram.bas
This will save the code into the file `myprogram.bbf'. After having this file you can execute the BASIC program issuing the command
$ scriba -b myprogram.bbf
or
$ scriba myprogram.bbf
On UNIX you can make the compiled file to be executable setting the permissions
$ chmod u+x myprogram.bbf
and after that you can just write:
$ ./myprogram.bbf
Please note that binary format files may not be executed on different versions or builds of ScriptBasic and are not movable from one platform to another. You may be lucky to execute Windows NT and Linux version bbf files on the other platform, but this is not a guaranteed feature. You surely can not run the binary format generated on a DEC OSF/1 (ooops, sorry Tru64 UNIX) on a 32 bit system.