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Subject: for us beginners?  Help
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Date: 28 Jul 90 01:38:55 GMT
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 Date: 07-24-90 (14:21)              Number: 3567 (Echo)
   To: RAY DUNCAN                    Refer#: NONE
 From: IAN WATTERS                     Read: NO
 Subj: HELP FOR BEGINNER             Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 RDpWe started out with Z-80 FORTH which ran under CP/M 2.2

 LMI's Z-80 Fig-FORTH contained one of my favourite bugs -- in one of
 the words (when reporting a disk error?) what should be the *word*
 .FCB (print the file name in a file control block) is compiled as the
 *hex number* .FCB ie double length 4043 decimal.  Ooops.

 The joys of meta-compilation?

   Ian
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