| What they wrote... | What they could have written |
| The sample from which the waveform to be written must be considered... |
The starting sample of the output waveform... |
| X will have to be equal to 1. | X must equal 1. |
| When an error of this kind is issued, the file must be considered corrupted. |
Such an error indicates file corruption. |
| The program may build a record in several calls, calling this subroutine for each of them. |
A record may be built through successive calls to this subroutine. |
| The second argument must be equal to 1. The subroutine can check it and will if necessary provoke a fatal error. |
The second argument must equal 1, otherwise a fatal error will occur. |
| Two kinds of error have to be considered; they are: ... |
There are two kinds of errors: ... |
| There remains to be considered one final possibility: ... |
Alternately, ... |
| Argument X may be given any value, and is not considered by the subroutine. |
X is a dummy argument. |
| A is the array where the name will be put. |
A is the array receiving the name. |