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HELP WANTED: LSRHS version of LOGO (DOSLOGO)

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From: John Savage
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 08:16
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I would like to hear from anyone running the LSRHS LOGO, so I can compare
notes on some mysterious behaviour I have found in the version I downloaded
from cher.media.mit.edu as DOSLOGO.

Specifically, I found that PRINT RANDOM 10000 works reliably, but
PRINT RANDOM 32767 works only about one time out of every five times I
execute it. (32767 is the largest positive integer for 16 bits).  Some
integer arguments are not accepted at all - I can live with that, but I
would like the largest range of random numbers, so why does RANDOM 32767
run only erratically??

Furthur, the ASCII function is strange.
To return the ASCII value of the character "0", one should use
PRINT ASCII "0 , but this returns a number cycling through this set, one
value at a time, every time it is run:
232 232 124 124 90 90 158 1158 28 28 !!!   None of these is correct.
To get the correct answer, I can use PRINT ASCII 0 ; but this cannot
be extended to finding the ASCII value of "D", etc.

Apart from these oddities, I like it.

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John Savage
School of Maths, Physics, Computing & Electronics,
Macquarie Univerity.
Sydney.  Australia.                email: johns@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au
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