Tom Hula <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:<[log in to unmask]>...
> The Waitforstring is used to guide Reflections through the session with
> the host. Typically, it is looking for the prompt. What this does for you
> is allow the host to respond at the end of a task before the macro
> continues to the next step. Apparently, you were using the record macro
> feature, and that escape sequence was generated by your host.
>
> You can shorten the string to just part of what you are expecting the host
> to display/send and it will still work just fine.
>
>     Tom Hula
>     Victor S. Barnes Company
>
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Thanks very much Tom ,
in that case ,if in going through these menus and a NO is returned I would like
to base the next decision on the Yes/No answer.
  How do I reference this returned value 'N' ??

Many thanks again for anyone's kind help.

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