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Subject: for us beginners?  Help
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Date: 2 Aug 90 01:18:44 GMT
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 Date: 07-30-90 (19:28)              Number: 3585 (Echo)
   To: RAY DUNCAN                    Refer#: 3577
 From: ZAFAR ESSAK                     Read: NO
 Subj: HELP FOR BEGINNER             Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 > The .FCB bug was one of my favorites too... I finally learned a basic 
 > survival tactic which was to avoid creating labels containing "dots" 
 > that could accidentally be construed as hex double numbers. 

 Or for that matter ANY names that can be construed as hex numbers, such 
 as ED.  Although using a preceeding character to set the base to hex, 
 eg. $ABC, and insisting that base be left in decimal could be a way 
 around these kinds of problems. 

 I have tried using >ED as a replacement for the abbreviation ED, for 
 those times when typing EDITOR seems too much. 
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