"Wirt Atmar" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I can certainly confirm that.  Just a few days ago I was 'bitten' by it.
> [snip - description of a problem traced to null characters where they
> didn't belong]

Usually when I suggest that some strange behavior might be caused by
nonprinting characters where they shouldn't be, I think that the actual
probability of that is very low.  But it happens just often enough to keep
life interesting.  It bit me just today.  I had cut and pasted (using
Minisoft) a sample MPEX command from the MPEX help display to a logon script
in an EDITOR/3000 session.  I couldn't figure out why that command was being
silently ignored, until I used FCOPY;CHAR;HEX and saw the two nonprinting
characters at the beginning of that line.

Walter

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