On 11 Jan, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Stu Cram wrote:

> On Jan 8, Douglas Stemen asked about this program ...
>> 	DIM t%
>> 	DEF LPRINT
>> 	ROUTE _toPrinter
>> 	FOR t% = 1 TO 100
>> 	PRINT t%
>> 	NEXT t%
>> 	CLOSE LPRINT
>
> and why it would crash now but not in earlier systems of FB.
> The suggestion was to have a window on the screen

(snip)
>
> As someone mentioned, use the PRINT %(h,v) option to specify the  
> exact position on the page and finish each PRINT instruction with a  
> semi-colon to suppress any extra returns that would start a new  
> line, possibly below the page bottom. That works for total control  
> of printing but it's much more work than a raw beginner should be  
> expected to deal with.

Or, perhaps, a non-beginner whose life is becoming more and more  
frustrated as the technology 'improves' - and not just with FB:  
witness the recent flutter of emails which finally got my old OS9 G3  
back on the network (thanks again, lads!) after the 'update' to  
10.4.x on some of the computers in this shop.
>
> PS The manual also states that a space is output after each number  
> but that doesn't happen either - see previous post on Jan 7.
>
> BOTTOM LINE - K.I.S.S. and make FutureBasic 4.3 or 5.0 work AS THE  
> MANUAL SAYS.
>
> My $0,02 rant; comments welcome.
> -Stu

I often despair of ever seeing a keen kid (as I was decades back)  
able to tie into our current complexities: I can't see half of the  
components on the circuit boards I now design (and I can't see ANY of  
their pins), and I can't see 90% of the software necessary to do the  
simplest of Mac tasks. One can only hope that there is enough nuclear  
leakage about to spawn the mutants who will be able to grasp all of  
these tiny pictures. In this, I refer not to the specialist who can,  
in time, learn essentially everything about almost nothing; the  
despair is for the occasional generalist who must see the whole  
thing. These people remain important. Or so I tell myself.

--
Ted Spencer