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::: Edit "the finder" line 395 from "item" or "items" to "iteM" or "iteMs" and repeat (R/Run in cal-3040-orig.exe). You should now have a cal-3040.exe which shows that capital M top right, which does not go away if you undo those edits (until another R/Run). --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 19:26, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 
:::: Very well. Now the question is, how to compile and run any other program than the compiler itself? --[[User:Dick de Bill|Dick de Bill]] ([[User talk:Dick de Bill|talk]]) 20:22, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 
:: Then I looked for another version of the compiler, thinking maybe <code>cal-3040.exe</code> is just buggy, and I found <code>cal-4700.exe</code>. The name suggests it is a newer, better version. Indeed, this one has a new feature – it only makes a copy of itself when ran on its own source. When compiling <code>source.txt</code>, it showed an error message <code>I need a routine to 'initialize before run'.</code> and besides that produced no output. Then I tested a few task implementations from RC. I picked those which were supposed to produce output, and thus prove that the program – and hence the compiler – works correctly. These tasks all contain a definition <code>To run:</code>, and they all ended up in an error message <code>Error in the desktop. I already know how to 'run'.</code> without producing any other output.