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From: jdm@hodge.UUCP (jdm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Humorous bug in Sprint
Message-ID: <21911@hodge.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 89 23:31:44 GMT
Organization: Hodge Computer Research Corporation
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I just upgraded to Sprint 1.01 and discovered a small "glitch"
in their file conversion utility.  I was translating a sprint
file to Wordstar and at the end of the file translation I was
greeted with a run-time error message:

	Run time error R6001
	- null pointer assignment

My file translated fine, but this error message had me wondering,
"Why is a Borland product returning a Microsoft error number?" I 
looked up R6001 in the MSC book and sure enough its "null pointer
assignment".  Since Turbo C's null pointer message returns no error
code I must assume that Sprint was, in reality, compiled with
Microsoft C.  But, it seems funny that Borland would use their
arch-rival's compiler on one of their own products.  Why not use
Turbo C?


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"I'm an anthropologist, not a computer systems architect, damit!"

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