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From: vanaards%t7@uk.ac.man.cs (Steven van Aardt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Reading from system device kybd:
Summary: problems experienced
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.121558.13985@cns.umist.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Mar 91 12:15:58 GMT
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Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester UK
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 Here's yet another problem I've had recently, could someone help ?


1. Hold down a single alpha key, the character should be echoed to the screen,
   The keyboard buffer will eventually fill after 255 characters, and you'll
   hear an audible beep.

2. Press the Return/Enter key.

3. The program now crashes with an EOF message

4. Type CLOSE#X or CLOSE#0

5. And RUN the program again

6. You should see a 'Channel' error message.

I couldn't open kbd: again till after a *shutdown.

Could someone explain what's happening.

X=OPENIN "kbd:"
REPEAT
  A=BGET#X
UNTIL A=ASC"."
CLOSE #X


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