Date   : Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:33:40 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: BASIC error message - "Mis..."?

"Alex Taylor" wrote:
> On 17/02/2008, Chris Johns <chris@...> wrote:
> > Wild guess, has something enabled the printer output so it's waiting for
> > that?
> 
> I thought of that, but I wondered why it would only do it in the
> middle of printing "Mistake". Unless that's not quite the case, and
> it's actually doing it after printing so many characters.
 
The printer buffer is 63 bytes long, so printer output will stall
after 63 characters have been printed. Escape by default clears
the buffers, so have you tried pressing Escape?
 
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