Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: MICROSOFT BASIC HANG-UP Message-ID: <1024@uw-beaver> Date: Mon, 2-Jul-84 16:18:15 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beaver>.1024 Posted: Mon Jul 2 16:18:15 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 3-Jul-84 03:16:49 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 11 From: Tony Siegman If you RUN the following MS Basic program on the Mac (I realize -- now -- that it's syntatically incorrect): 10 X=1: P$="##.##": PRINT USING "P$"; X the Mac goes into a loop, printing an endless unmoving single line of "P$P$P$P$P$P$P$P$P$P$P$P$..." across the screen; the mouse is disabled; Ctrl-C does not work; and there seems to be no way to get out except to turn the power off and start over. -------