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Date: 18 Mar 91 03:27:25 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 1,  Topic 4
Message 31        Sun Mar 17, 1991
M.HAWLEY                     at 21:45 EST
 
I have noticed what appears to be a bug in Jack Brown's JBINPUT.SEQ - routines
for bullet proof number input. The response to the backspace
 key is not what I would expect. Using a somewhat outdated F-PC, the back
space key during #IN correctly alters the number on the st stack, but not the
screen display. His code is: : RUBOUT ( -- ) ( JBW 28 09 88 )
     CONTROL_H EMIT SPACE
     CONTROL_H EMIT
     -4 #OUT +!  ; My substitute , factored into two words, is: : back 
control_h emit -2 #out +! ; : rubout  back space back ; This seems to work
correctly  on my system.  ...meh...

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