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From: jdyer@indirect.com (Jason Dyer)
Subject: Re: Box command in Inform
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 19:57:26 GMT
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David Wagner (wagner@vsopb7.cern.ch) wrote:
: In article <hq47Wiy.bnewell@delphi.com>, bnewell@delphi.com writes...
: >I saw another posting about someone having trouble with the "box"
: >command....

: Here is the smallest "game" that I can come up with which displays a
: box:

: It just draws a box and waits for a keypress.  It works on both a VAX and
: a Mac, so it probably should work elsewhere.

The major box problem (and the one I still haven't gotten fixed) is
putting a box inside the code of an object. The one in particular I
have problems with will work fine without the box, but crash
with the box. I also tried replacing the box with a print
and it worked fine. My suspicion is a bug in the library.

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