djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor) (07/24/89)
One of the users on the University of Washington campus discovered something about QuickBasic 4.0 that may be of interest to other users. I repost for Eric Gorr... ****************************************************************************** For those who use Microsoft Quickbasic 4.0, I just discovered a bug in the program that apparently Microsoft knew nothing about...or at least the people on the help line didn't know anything about it. Anyways, try entering this program: go = 1 Print go --- When you run the program from within Quickbasic, it should print "1" on the screen, but when you try to make this program an EXE file, it will tell you that there are syntax errors in those two lines. The problem is with the variable 'Go'. when you change it to something else, everything should work just fine. Hope this can be of use to someone.... (Oh, 'Go' is not a reserved word or anything...the person on the help line checked it out and did this exact same test) ********************************************************************** "Moby" Dick O'Connor ** DISCLAIMER: It would Washington Department of Fisheries ** surprise me if the Olympia, Washington 98504 ** rest of the Department Internet Mail: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu ** agreed with any of this!