Re: Change Invisible problems with BX

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia,
> Harry, I ran some tests on this, and I THINK the source of the problem
> may simply be the speed (and possibly the multithreading capabilities) of
> modern processors. Recall that BX is Blind Execute: it doesn't look at
> what it's doing.
I wondered about speed, but I put in a 1-second pause (command: "p") and
that didn't affect anything, nor did a BXwaitQ2.
> I then altered your original program to include ≪IF≪ER≫≫≪GLNEXT≫
> and a Next label between the first QT and the TF command. I also expanded
> the text file to 700 lines, to match yours. This time, only three lines
> (one each of numbers 2, 3, and 4) did not get stripped of quotes and
> sorted. If one included a routine to Press a key to continue, it would
> probably work, but my manuals are over in the office and I don't recall,
> off the top of my head, how to do that.
Thanks, but it's not a problem for me to use BC-XC. I was just wondering
about the explanation of the difference.


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx