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From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Patches for STAR 1.04.1 (HP-48SX)
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Date: 12 Mar 91 10:14:39 GMT
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   I would like to request *anyone* that downloads a program, any
program, that they contact the author before setting out on a huge bug
fix effort.  Or you may end up like the unfortunate author of the
previous post - fixing code that was fixed quite some time ago. Since
any help on STAR is both needed and wanted, I sort of lose too if
people secretly fix bugs that have already been fixed, since people
could instead help finding and fixing existing bugs in current
releases.

   So, I directed the author to the not yet announced 1.04.4 - I hope
he will get Turbo C to compile that version as well. Not much is new,
it's basically the same as 1.04.3 except two bugs were fixed - one
that is serious and was discovered shortly after 1.04.3 was announced.
It causes local symbols in large programs divided into several files
to fail miserably. Bill Gribble has also provided a binary for
AmigaDOS, as well as some installation notes.

   Oh, one more thing. Sometimes people forward announcements to
comp.archive. I frequently get mail from people asking me "great, but
what does it do?" This makes me feel silly. If you feel compelled to
forward my announcements to non-handhelds forums, then please consider
adding a few lines to clarify what the program does.

						-- Jan Brittenson
						   bson@ai.mit.edu

					   Read my lisp: no new classes!