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- Okay! Yet another issue released, but unfortunately, half an hour before
- release, YAB was found. YAB is a name inspired by the UNIX program YACC.
- Like YACC is short for "Yet Another Compiler Compiler", "YAB" is short
- for "Yet Another Bug". This bug is the same bug that we met the first
- time we went "legal" by actually allocating the memory we used. Strangely
- enough, I have not found out exactly how to make this bug appear. Last
- time I did it was by loading the soundtracker music, loading the "Famous
- Last Words" article, loading part II of "the Dying Ritual", loaded part I
- of the same book, and then loaded the poetry article.
- What happens is that the file doesn't unpack properly. Actually, it's
- like the unpacker just "gives up" or something... Loading another small
- article usually fixes it again, and you can try to load the article you
- didn't get to read again. If that doesn't work, you probably have to exit
- the program and restart it. I'm thinking of adding a "reinit" function on
- the options menu. Right now, however, there is no time... SCRIBA MUST BE
- RELEASED TODAY! It's too late as it is.
- Strangely enough, I have not been able to force this bug to appear
- while playing the blipp blopp music.
- Anyway, when the next Scriba program is released, it should be enough
- just to use that program on the old data.bin file. But beware... THIS
- program will not work on the previous issues of Scriba, as we are now
- using our own archive method. We're about to make a standarization of
- that data.bin file, very soon, as a matter of fact, we're almost there,
- and when the standard has been completed, we will rerelease all previous
- issues as data.bin files.
-
- So... now that I have warned you about the UIB (UnIdentified Bug) I saw
- just before release, you won't need to hit me because an article doesn't
- load properly.
- Now I've got to rush to actually release this stuff... Au revoir...
- Lean back and enjoy this issue! We've worked very hard this time!
- Especially on the program!
- If you think our contribution to the Atari society is worth what we are
- doing, please acknowledge this by donations (so far we haven't gotten
- anything for this), postcards, fanmail or any other correspondence. We
- need to see that there are people out there who read this magazine!
- You'll find our correspondence addresses in the magazine. Thanks!
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