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From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Progamming Flags
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Date: 2 May 91 18:45:25 GMT
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In a posting of [2 May 91 14:44:20 GMT]
   salvato@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Vincent H. Salvato) writes:

 > I want to write a program that if symbolic is on it automaticaly turns
 > it off and says "SYM OFF" and in turn if symbolic is already off I
 > want it to turn it on and say "SYM ON".

One possible solution (67.5 bytes):

	<< "SYM O" 1 FS?C "FF" << 1 SF "N" >> IFTE + 1 DISP 1 FREEZE >>


Of course, if you compromise your demands, it can be reduced:

	<< 1 FS?C "NUM" << 1 SF "SYM" >> IFTE 1 DISP 1 FREEZE >>

The latter will say "NUM" or "SYM". It's 61 bytes.

						-- Jan Brittenson
						   bson@ai.mit.edu