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Subject: Re: Does conditional COPY still look for member?
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Date: 3 May 91 05:03:20 GMT
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ralerche@LINDY.STANFORD.EDU ("Robert A. Lerche") writes:

>(To generate a COPY you have to "trick" the assembler by defining a SETC
>symbol to be 'COPY' and using it in the opcode field.  If you just put
>a COPY inside a MACRO definition the text of the copied member will be
>placed _inside_ the definition.)

In fact, I have used COPY to actually insert PORTIONS of conditional code
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