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From: foster@ihuxv.ATT.COM (r. foster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: MWC bugs
Keywords: MWC C
Message-ID: <3329@ihuxv.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 89 22:28:16 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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I have version 3.0.6 of Mark Williams C which I upgraded from 2.3.
With 3.0.6 I get strange hangups to the printer occasionally when
running programs under their shell. I have never had any problems
running the same programs directly from GEM.
They come from the MW db program as well as some that I have written.
The nature of it is that when you issue a write command to a printer,
it just hangs for a while like something is going out but nothing ever
shows up at the printer. This is very intermittent and I can never
recall it happenning with the 2.3 version I have. Has anyone else had
this problem. I understand MWC is up to 3.0.9 now. Is this fixed in
that version?

Also the atof() function in MWC  will return 0 if the string starts
with a blank. This is in spite of an explicit statement to the
contrary in the documentation. Fortunately, it is easy to get around.

Bob Foster