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    From Gryphon@1:218/700 to All on Tue Dec 10 16:07:00 2013
    From: "Gryphon" <gryphon@1:106/324.remove-5q7-this>
    Subject: broken CHAR functions
    To: g00r00

    To: g00r00
    James,

    I've found an issue with MPE functions that retuern a CHAR. No matter what
    you set the return value to be, it only ever returns a 1.

    I believe this was addressed previous to ALPHA 21, as it apprears to have
    been fixed then. I found this in the history.txt file.

    + MPE: Support for CHAR variables as function results has been added. I
    didn't even realized that they weren't supported! Hrrmmm,
    Forgetful I am, yes...

    But apparently, it hasn't been fixed.

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  • From mark lewis@1:218/700 to All on Tue Dec 10 19:37:00 2013
    From: "mark lewis" <mark.lewis@1:3634/42.remove-qij-this>
    Subject: Re: broken CHAR functions
    To: Gryphon

    To: Gryphon
    On 12-10-13, Gryphon said the following...

    I've found an issue with MPE functions that retuern a CHAR. No matter what you set the return value to be, it only ever returns a 1.

    unless i'm mistaken, there is only ever one character in a CHAR or CHR... if you want more than one character returned, then you need to use a string or
    an array or something that holds more than one item ;)

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