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From: cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao)
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Subject: Re: bugs in applesoft (Was: Re: GS/OS SCSI questions)
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Date: 14 Jan 90 21:20:33 GMT
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In article <13257@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tromey@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (cactus) writes:
>i seem to remember that about 1 or 2 years ago someone wrote an article
>for nibble magazine where he fixed 13 (12?) bugs in applesoft. i dont have
>my issues handy so i cant really look it up (but i could if you really
>want).  i do remember that there is a bug in the floating point multiply
>routine which causes it to get the last bit wrong under certain
>circumstances.  also onerr is very buggy - apple even published a little
>piece of machine code to fix up "some onerr goto problems with print and
>?out of memory error messages." (quote from basic prog. ref. manual).
>also wasnt there some bug with key and onerr?  i seem to remember...
>hope this helps/tom
>tromey@tybalt.caltech.edu		or is this just stupid?

I believe there are lots of bugs in Applesoft... and as I knew, there were
about 12 or 13 bugs (or maybe more, since I didn't really count them)
I used to have all of them printed out, but left the printout  in Argentina
as I came to this country.

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