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Re: Bug in Integer BASIC (strings longer than 250 chars crash)

Subject: Re: Bug in Integer BASIC (strings longer than 250 chars crash)
From: dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:02:07 +0000 (UTC)
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cmosher01 wrote:
> 
> I can't find any reference to this bug... anyone else ever run across
> it? It seems to exist both in the original Apple ][ ROMs, and in the
> INTEGER BASIC that's on the DOS 3.3 system master disk (which I know
> has some other bug fixes). It seems that anytime you fill up a string
> variable with more than 250 characters, and try to access it, it just
> crashes.

It likely not a bug, but rather a limitation of the language interpreter.

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- Bug in Integer BASIC (strings longer than 250 chars crash)
  - From: cmosher01 <cmosher01@gmail.com>

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