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From: djmolny@wnuxb.UUCP (Molny)
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Subject: Macintosh MS-BASIC warts
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Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 11:05:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 18 11:05:03 1984
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< clean your plate; there are bugs starving in asia... >


Thought I'd share two nasty problems with Microsoft BASIC on the Mac.

1) When saving a large program (by selecting SAVE from the FILE menu),
one must wait for the disk to finish spinning before selecting another FILE
option (especially NEW, OPEN... or QUIT).  Otherwise, the disk write is
truncated.  This happened several times before I made the connection.
I sent Microsoft a bug report on this one.

2) A large quantity of LPRINTs can overrun the Imagewriter's buffer if the
printer is set for XON/XOFF protocol.  Selecting DTR protocol (by opening dip
switch 2, bit 3) fixes the problem.  I haven't tried MacWrite or MacPaint with
the printer in this mode, but I suspect there will be problems since they worked
fine with XON/XOFF.



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