CompuServe Messages

Paul, I have to disagree with you… if you read through the (mounds of) documentation provided by C-A (and CATS), time and time again, you'll run across text to the effect of 'do it this way and we'll make every effort to keep you working' and (more to the point) 'do it this way and you are _guaranteed_ to break'. There are a lot of other examples, and there are some 'grey' areas, but I think you'll find that the programs that break tend to be game programs, and tend to do things that were specifically documented as being 'illegal' on this machine. Then of course, there's MS Amiga BASIC which used the upper bits of pointers for thier own needs, but we all know about MS (maybe we should cut them some slack, after all, they've been programming brain dead computers for years…. nah). Sure, C-A has thier part in promoting good software practices and in my view (and many others, I'm sure) they've done an outstanding job. But if you don;t read the info suplied, or choose to ignore it, you (the programmer) are the _sole_ person to blame when it breaks. – Keith