Subj : Strange error
To   : Stewart Arnett
From : Marcus Roeckrath
Date : Fri Nov 08 2002 02:15 pm

Hi Stewart,

Stewart Arnett wrote to Tim Parsons on 06-Nov-02
Subject: Strange error

 SA> I am wondering if this part of Portals code was perhaps written in
 SA> Visual Basic at one time and is exhibiting the vb timing error
 SA> that occurs on some faster machines

No part of Portal is written in a Basic dialect; it's Borland-Pascal.

There is a "division by zero" bug in many Pascal-Compilers from Borland.
The code is part of the crt unit but this does not effect portal because
this unit isn't used.

Greetings from Marcus

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