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From: lippin@wish-bone.berkeley.edu (The Apathist)
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Subject: Re: How to use ParamText's
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Date: 14 Mar 89 01:34:28 GMT
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Recently wilson@csli.stanford.edu (Nathan Wilson) wrote:
[...]
>Now it
>occurred to me that the best way to generate this string would be to
>store it as a parameterized string as per alerts, that is
>
>^0 ID = ^1 in ^2
>
>and then use the ParamText mechanism.
[...]

There's no need to bother the dialog manager with this; Munger, the
general-purpose trap, will make short work of this job.

					--Tom Lippincott
					  lippin@math.berkeley.edu

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