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From: sinteur@uvabick.UUCP (John Sinteur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HyperCard NumToChar bug
Keywords: NumToChar, CharToNum, bug
Message-ID: <2332@uvabick.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 89 09:56:47 GMT
Organization: uvabick
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I recently ran into a bug in HyperCard:
NumtoChar does not function if you pass a zero as a parameter,
that is, if you want to write a hex $00 to a disk file, you can't.
Instead, you get a $20 on disk.
The same goes for reading a $00. it reads a 'space' instead, so if you
do a 'chartonum', a 32 results.

I already told Apple about this (the AppleLink address HYPERBUG$),
but I would really like to know if somebody has a workaround for this
sort of thing, as the next 'bugfixing release' probably will never
exist (version 2.0 is what I expect to be the next release. This bug
will probably be solved, but I can't wait for that).

Any ideas?

-John Sinteur
sinteur@uvabick
adegroot@hroeur5.bitnet
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