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From: madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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Subject: Re: Breaking out of loops on the HP-48SX
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Date: 11 Nov 90 23:15:33 GMT
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Eric Postpischil points out:
>madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
>
>> You can put the loop in an IFERR statement, and then divide by
>> zero or some such thing to cause an error. 
>
>To generate an error, you can use the DOERR command.
>
>
>				-- edp


Thanks.  A "0 DOERR" is much cleaner, in that it does not affect ERRN or
ERRM (which records the last error).

Mark Adler
madler@piglet.caltech.edu