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From: svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen van Egmond)
Subject: Re: [INFORM 6] HELP!!!!!
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:48:58 GMT
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In article <326328C6.28E@skipjack.bluecrab.org>,
Ross Raszewski  <rraszews@skipjack.bluecrab.org> wrote:
>No, I fixed all of that.  It's only when I get no other errors that I
>get this "Backpatching" problem.


From the technical manual and the release note for Inform 6.05:

Spurious backpatching errors (actually, all backpatching errors are spurious -
    backpatching is supposed to work every time) produced when the Z-code
    area of the Z-machine exceeds 64K.  (This seldom happens even in large
    games, unless quite long print and print_ret strings are quoted.)  The
    error message in question was

        *** Backpatch symbol out of range ***

    and, just to recap, this should never appear. Please send me the
    offending source code if it persists!
<snip>

So, in, short, check to make sure your print and print_ret strings are
reasonable.  Oh, and make sure you're using 6.05 (I forget if you said you
were).  If it persists, you may have encountered a bug; Mr. Nelson can be
found at nelson@vax.ox.ac.uk. 




