In message <[log in to unmask]>, Denys Beauchemin 
<[log in to unmask]> writing at 09:53:14 in his/her local time opines:-

<snip most of Denys' problem with BS>

>50 DIM B$[12]

>520 RS="123"
>530 REM
>540 REM F IS THE FILE NUMBER OF A KSAM FILE
>550 REM OPENED BY A CALL TO BKOPEN
>560 REM
>570 REM NOTE THAT ONLY THREE BYTES "123" ARE WRITTEN FROM B$
>580 REM WHEREAS TEN WORDS ARE WRITTEN FROM NUMERIC ARRAY A.
>620 REM
>630 REM THREE IDENTICAL RECORDS ARE BEING OUTPUT SO THAT
>640 REM SUBSEQUENT EXAMPLES OF THIS PROGRAM WILL EXECUTE
>650 REM .
>660 FOR I=1 TO 3
>670 CALL BKWRITE(F,S$,BS,A[*])
>680 REM

>Now, isn't that the funniest thing you have ever seen?  I sprayed my screen
>with some hot coffee.
>Could this be due to bad scanning and imperfect character recognition?

Quite possibly. On a similar note, my iPad came under severe caffeine 
peril when the iBook I was reading had Jack Readier being menaced with a 
Clock pointed straight at him.

Mind you, I'd be alarmed if that happened to me....

-- 
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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