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From: jerryk@pro-tcc.UUCP (Jerry Kindall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: BASIC.SYSTEM v1.3 Bug
Message-ID: <8909270119.AA07105@trout.nosc.mil>
Date: 26 Sep 89 16:57:29 GMT
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Network Comment: to #396 by microsoft!brianw@uunet.uu.net

Sorry Brian, no free IIgs for finding the BASIC.SYSTEM 1.3 bug.  Apple's known
about that since at least back in July -- they announced to developers at the
A2-Central Developer Conference that no one should use BASIC.SYSTEM 1.3
because it contains a bug.  The same bug you found.  There was an RTS
instruction left out of the BASIC.SYSTEM code at the point where it was to
return an error code, and instead of returning the error code, it fell through
into BSAVE.

BASIC.SYSTEM 1.4, which is part of the recently announced System Software
5.02, fixes this bug.
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