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From: hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Hartkopf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS brings small bug?
Message-ID: <10993@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 24 Aug 89 07:17:39 GMT
References: <0YwBnxa00W0J81iV5C@andrew.cmu.edu# <34255@apple.Apple.COM#
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In article <34255@apple.Apple.COM# dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) writes:
|In article <0YwBnxa00W0J81iV5C@andrew.cmu.edu# bh1e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Brendan Gallagher Hoar) writes:
||
||Could someone go out and verify that I'm not the one causing this problem?
||
|[Boot System Software 5.0 on a ROM 1 machine, set sound volume to 0 so the
|order blinks for a beep, go into BASIC.SYSTEM, and get gibberish when the
|ell sounds during a ?SYNTAX ERROR]
|
|I haven't been able to duplicate this behavior.  Anybody else?
|
|Brendan, do you have any CDAs, NDAs, or System.Setup files that don't
|come with the System Software?  (If so, try removing or inactivating them
|and see if the problem goes away.)
|
|Can you describe the "gibberish" in more detail?  (It might actually mean
|something.)


I tried it, and *did* duplicate the problem Brendan mentioned.  However,
it happened only in 40 column mode; in 80 columns, everything worked just
fine.

The "gibberish" seems to be a combination of digits and Applesoft words
(at least for me).


Jeff Hartkopf

Internet:
hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU