Perhaps you could make use of the fact that UDC files are *already* open
and catalogued and stick some code in there.

Paul Courry





>The background for the question is that I'm creating a command file
>on-the-fly, and the body of the 'while' loop is getting too large.
>I'd like to break this out into another piece, but since this section
>of code may be executed *thousands* of times, I'd like to avoid *thousands*
>of opens/closes.
>
>If I can 'xeq !hpfile' without the extra open/close overhead, then I'll do
>that.  Otherwise, I may well live with the "long code."
>
>Thanks!
>
>--Glenn Cole
>  Software al dente, Inc.
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