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On Sunday, July 2, 2017 at 2:15:33 PM UTC-5, Charles Richmond wrote:
> On 6/30/2017 9:41 AM, Charles Richmond wrote:
> > On 6/28/2017 5:34 PM, robert.f...@gmail.com wrote:
> >>
> >  >      [snip...]              [snip...]              [snip...]
> >  >
> >> Back in the day, I typed the program in from the book and found it did 
> >> not work. I wrote to Byte Books and got a reply that some of the 
> >> program (one or two lines as I recall) had been lost during paste-up 
> >> and did not make it into the book. I was the first to report the 
> >> problem as everyone else that wanted to use the program had written in 
> >> and got the correct program sent to them on a floppy.  (Look for a gap 
> >> in the line numbers between the bottom of one page and the top of the 
> >> next.)
> >>
> >  >      [snip...]              [snip...]              [snip...]
> >>
> >> I found my file for this project. The letter is from Alan Kaniss, one 
> >> of the authors. It is hand-written on note paper from Feb 22, 1982. 
> >> The missing line is line 31040: "ELSE RETURNTOCALLINGSUBR".  I had 
> >> forgotten that the machine readable form others got was a tape not a 
> >> floppy disk.
> >>
> > 
> > Thanks much for the Pascal source correction for APL in Pascal!!!  I was 
> > one that "fat fingered"  (i.e., typed in myself) the entire Pascal 
> > source program.  Although some may have gotten the source on digital 
> > media from BYTE, I know I am *not* the only one who typed the dang thing 
> > in!!!    :-)
> > 
> > This fix should be on a web page and I plan to create a small web page 
> > explaining this fix. Thanks again!!!
> > 
> 
> Robert, sinc you found your APL in Pascal project file... can you post 
> which issue of BYTE magazine contained the correction you gave???  My 
> BYTE magazines are accessible in pdf form, and seeing the printed 
> correction would probably be helpful...
> 
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I don't know if the correction ever appeared in Byte magazine. I'm not sure if they were even aware of the error until long after the book came out. My letter to Alan that generated the reply mentioned earlier, was about two years after the book came out and I'm not sure he was aware of the error until I brought it to his attention. (I think the reply to my letter to Byte books told me I would have to contact the authors.) My letter to Alan and the other authors had narrowed down the problem such that I knew the missing line number and that it was an "ELSE" clause, so it would be easy for him to look up the line. There may be other errors that are more subtle in their effects when trying to execute the program, but I didn't ask and Alan didn't volunteer.