From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.unix-wizards Title: Re: PASCAL BUG? Article-I.D.: utah-gr.588 Posted: Thu Oct 21 19:56:40 1982 Received: Fri Oct 22 03:37:28 1982 References: burdvax.241 Now, I can't say for sure, but it looks as if somebody is storing that integer constant (200) in a byte (it fits, after all, 200 < 256), but then treating said byte as a signed quantity (i.e., -56). =Spencer