#: 20867 S3/Languages
    26-Mar-95  16:01:21
Sb: #20865-scanf() question
Fm: David Breeding 72330,2051
To: David Breeding 72330,2051 (X)

RE: CoCo can't Pipe!

Well, it looks like this thing has gotten me talking to myself .

OK.. In review.. what I was doing, I had written a filter to read the ascii
output of a program and re-enter it into a new version of the "original"
program.

The thing worked like a charm but got all confused on the CoCo.  Here's part of
my original post.

 > The process on the CoCo appears to me to be shooting data to the program
 > and losing some, sending them out into the "bit bucket" or something,

Apparently I have a bug in my CoCo system.. After working with that for about a
day, changing gets()'s to readln()'s and all, thinking it was something in the
compiler, I got a "brainstorm".

I was using Powerboost on the CoCo.  I booted up under 6809 mode and guess
what?  It worked.

Apparently, something's wrong in the PowerBoost system. All of Piper, Pipeman,
or Pipe show different Module CRC's, it must be somewhere in the other I/O
modules, but there's a problem somewhere.

Under Powerboost, when I got it to input a few entries, I got repeats on at
least one, the date was wrong on at least 2 more.

Another thing, I had it to do ReVOn for the Menu Title.  It would do this on
the first time the menu appeared, but was in normal colors on all (?)
subsequent draws.  With 6809 mode, this worked correctly, too.

So, I guess I found out at least the proximity of where the problem was, just
not exactly.. I'm just glad it wasn't a compiler problem.

                         -- David Breeding --
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