
ננננננננננננננננננננ E R R A T A ננננננננננננננננננננ (11/29/83)

    Program updates are made more often than the updates to the
user's guide can keep up with.  In order to keep you better
informed, this file contains information related to corrections
or updates to the user's guide as well as notification of what
problems were identified and fixed for the version of the program
that is on this diskette.

Please refer to the users guide and the BATDOC.BAT file for
information about Extended Batch Language commands and operation.

USER'S GUIDE CORRECTIONS........

    Page 34 - 2nd paragraph.

    If the INKEY command senses a key pressed in the range of "!"
to "z" (decimal 33 to 122) then a key will be saved in the
optional variable as that single character.  It WILL NOT be
echoed to the display.	If you wish it to be displayed, you must
specifically use the TYPE command.

PROGRAM CORRECTIONS/CHANGES (for version 2.00b) .......

    1.	The initial logo screen describing the user supported
concept had a 'Press any key to continue...'.  If a key was
pressed to advance past this screen, the key was sensed only and
not actually read in.  Therefore, the key remained in the
keyboard buffer and sometimes interfered with programs following
BAT in an AUTOEXEC.BAT file.  If a key is pressed, it is actually
removed from the keyboard buffer now.

    2.	If the special SIZE option is used when BAT is first
invoked, it will also signal the initial logo screen to be
reduced in size.  This initial logo screen is used to present the
user supported concept.  In addition, it will not wait for a
key-press to continue.	The SIZE option is created by making the
first executed BAT statement:

    BAT * [decimal size] [comment]

    The [decimal size] is a number representing the amount of
space to reserve for a keyboard stack area.  The default is 512
bytes.	This is described further in section 4.1 on page 8 of the
users guide.

    3.	The stack status variable %Q gave incorrect information
as to the source of the next character.  Previously, information
was said to come from the stack if the stack was not empty.  No
attention was paid however to see if the stack was enabled
(STACK.ON).  Now, information is said to come from the stack if
both the stack is not empty and the stack is enabled.  This will
now correctly represent the status of the SOURCE of the next
keyboard character.

    4.	The READ function did not echo the keyboard characters to
the screen if the stack was not empty and the STACK.OFF command
was used.  This is no longer the case.	In all cases when the
READ command reads characters from the keyboard, they will be
echoed to the display.	Note that the echo will still be
suppressed if characters are read from the keyboard stack
instead.

