urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) (07/07/87)
[Wisdom for the line eater. For what x is x*x <> x^2 in AMIGABASIC 1.0]
Included below is an Amiga BASIC program whose purpose is supposed to be
to read in a packed record of 8204 integers stored as one record of a
random file, and unpack the record into an array. Why I am trying to do
this is irrelevant just now. What is relevant is that this program keeps
getting visited by the GURU and I don't know why.
CLEAR , 1030,1030
CLEAR , 40000&,2048
OPEN "R",1, "matfile", 16410
FIELD 1,16408 AS a$
LSET a$="abcd"
DIM ps%(8203)
ps%(0)=0
b&=VARPTR(ps%(0))
c&=b&
GET #1,1
a&=SADD(a$)
FOR i&=a& TO a&+16407 STEP 2
POKEW c&,PEEKW(i&)
c&=c&+2
NEXT i&
END
I would much appreciate an explanation of why its happening.
What am I doing wrong, other than trying to program in that stupid BASIC.:-)
By the way the values in the record are {640,100,2,0,0,0,....}, but that
shouldn't matter.
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