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Re: decode

Reply to note from "Morris Krok"  Wed, 12 Dec
2001 10:52:32 -0800

> Carl mentioned sometime back that in Xy4 you cannot use BX Q2
> in all instances as BC XC must be used in certain cases for a
> program to work. What are those instances?

There aren't many. The only BC statement I can think of that won't
work with BX is BC caXC (to CAll the filename under the cursor in a
directory listing). To do that with BX, you've got to save the
filename to a Save/Get first, then PV the Save/Get into the command:
>BX ca Q2 .

Another time to use BC instead of BX is when you want your program
to execute a command once but to leave that command on the CMline
for the user to execute manually after the program EXits.

Some commands, e.g., ones with SEarch wildcards, are stated a little
differently with BX than with BC. I've summarized the differences in
a brief tutorial (a work in progress), which you can obtain at
http://users.datarealm.com/ammaze/xfer/. Download BX.ZIP.

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Carl Distefano
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