Re: TI-H: Random command

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: Random command
From: The Barkers <rbarker@polarnet.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 10:01:33 -0800
References: <3.0.32.19961206214341.006948b4@pop.pipeline.com>
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org

Jake Schutz wrote:
> 
> At 02:24 AM 12/7/96 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> > My ti calculator has a problem with the random command. Everytime
> > I put the random command,it responds "ERROR 1 OVERFLOW". Is this 
> > because of Zshell?
> > How do I fix up this problem?

> I also had this problem. I am trying to think what I did to fix 
> it...
> Try these commands and see if it works
> 
> 1->rand   (-> = store key)
> or
> 0->rand

Yep, this problem is caused by PlainJump.  This is commonly known as 
the "Plain Jump Virus" even though it is not really a virus.  If you 
look at the previous for the past couple days, we have been talking 
about this.  And yes, 1->rand does clear this up.  Unfortunetly, it is 
a seed value, so rand will not be completely random.

References:

Re: TI-H: Random command

From: Jake Schutz <Jester316@pipeline.com>