I have to tell you guys about something - no inquiries - just a bit of amazement. 

I guess we (and Wirt) are about the last to be using BASIC/3000 (not business basic)

Anyway I notice on a report 2 lines printed are 2 bytes offset to the left - but the code looks fine. The formatting statements   (IMAGE 4x,30a, etc) looks the same. 

I put in a couple of diagnostic statements to check how the contents the the variables look . The complier complained about segment overflow and barfed. (that's the technical term)  - reminds me years ago when I told a boss that the program bombed I was told to never say "bombed" but "aborted", but I digress. 

I decide to  eliminate about 200 lines of unrelated code and recompile.Compiles fine.  Now the report looks fine. Thinking of "C" terms one would think corrupted memory but  I don't believe that is the case.  

Time to bring out the pruning shears, I guess! 

In other news I hear on the radio some HP execs are taking the 5th before a Congressional committee. Shades of Don Corleone. 

Bill 

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