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Re: Director's Calendar - weird bug

From	Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>
Subject	Re: Director's Calendar - weird bug
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Date	2022-08-03 16:00 +0100
Message-ID	<5a1238b626News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> (permalink)
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In article <b9282f125a.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>,
   Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:
> On 3 Aug 2022 as I do recall,
>           Martin  wrote:

> [snip]

> > I also noticed that while the window was open, the processor was
> > being consumed by 60k+ Null Polls/sec ... easily solved by
> > changing

> >     SYS "Wimp_Poll",,b% TO r%
> > to
> >     SYS "Wimp_Poll",1,b% TO r%

> Worth doing.   I just wish we could get these improvements back
> into the original distribution!

I fear any support has vanished a long time ago :-((

> > I would assign the arrays days$(), monthb$(), monthd$() and
> > leapyrs() by eg:
> >     days$() = "","Sun","Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat"
> > rather than RESTORE & READ loops, but that is being picky!
 
> I suspect that would have required a newer version of BASIC than
> available when the program was written.
> (I didn't know you could do that....)

Nope - it is in my BASIC guide dated 1988!

-- 
Martin Avison 
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Re: Director's Calendar - weird bug Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2022-08-02 02:25 +0100
  Director's Calendar - weird bug Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2022-08-02 11:04 +0100
    Re: Director's Calendar - weird bug Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2022-08-02 12:06 +0100
  Re: Director's Calendar - weird bug Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2022-08-02 15:36 +0200
    Re: Director's Calendar - weird bug Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2022-08-02 18:45 +0100
      Director developers (was: Director's Calendar - weird bug) Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2022-08-02 20:58 +0100
        Re: Director developers Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2022-08-04 17:04 +0100
          Re: Director developers Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2022-08-04 20:42 +0100
            Re: Director developers Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2022-08-05 00:00 +0100
            Re: Director developers druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2022-08-05 12:18 +0100
      Re: Director's Calendar - weird bug Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2022-08-03 09:17 +0200
      Re: Director's Calendar - weird bug Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2022-08-03 13:38 +0100
        Re: Director's Calendar - weird bug Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2022-08-03 14:16 +0100
          Re: Director's Calendar - weird bug Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2022-08-03 16:00 +0100
            Re: Director's Calendar - weird bug Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2022-08-03 23:35 +0100
          Re: Director's Calendar - weird bug Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2022-08-03 20:02 +0200

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