Actually Larry wrote back later privately saying he'd incorporated my
check-everything-spec'd route after getting bitten by his shortcut.

Thanks for checking!

Tracy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birket Foster [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 11:54 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: suprtool
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:08:59 -0800, Larry Barnes
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >Tracy, thanks for the tip.
> >
> >I took a different method, based on your example,  here it is.
> >
> > DEF POS5,USER-ID[5],1,BYTE
> > IF POS5 = " "
> >
>
> Now that is assuming that there are no space allowed in the
> 5th byte, and
> that the values in the field are left justified ... but then
> you probably
> took that into account ;-)
>
> Birket Foster
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