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From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
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Subject: Re: strings on 48
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Date: 14 May 91 00:21:38 GMT
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In article <1991May13.144544.6606@cs.dal.ca> silvert%biome@cs.dal.ca writes:
>I do not recall exactly how I entered the strings originally.  I think I
>just typed them in.  But today when I try to type in a string like this
>the - sign gets interpreted as a command, so to include the - signs I
>have to create the strings without them, then edit them.

In order to enter the string "00-00", you need to type:

	<blue-shift>"00<alpha>-00<enter>

In particular, if you omit the <alpha> shift before the minus sign, the minus
gets interpreted as an operation instead of a character to add to the string,
resulting in either a "too few arguments" error or a "bad argument type" error,
depending on whether the stack was previously empty.

--
Dave Seaman
ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu