[Coco] Basic09 INPUT - Is this safe.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/15/19 10:43 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:
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>> On Aug 15, 2019, at 9:09 AM, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Which BASIC does that?  None that I have ever used.
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> 10 LINE INPUT A$
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> Run and type until it stops your typing and press Enter. You will get ?OS ERROR
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> Basic allocates 200 bytes (CLEAR 200) by default but the input size is 249 bytes or so.
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But that doesn't smash any other variables.  It just runs out
of space and kills the program.

bill