[Coco] Basic09 INPUT - Is this safe.

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 15 10:09:49 EDT 2019


On 8/15/19 9:34 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:
> On Aug 15, 2019, at 8:31 AM, Salvador Garcia via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am unfamiliar with BASIC09, but do know programming languages. I am glad the others clarified, but I would be shocked and traumatized if BASIC09 allowed data smashing like you describe. Salvador
> 
> Normal basic has no protection. You can crash the program at an INPUT by typing a long string unless the user has over declared string space. The default is less than the input size limit.
> 

Which BASIC does that?  None that I have ever used.

bill



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