Michael Berkowitz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

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: In this case there was no UDC, so then a valid MPE command is looked
: for.  Since as far back as I can remember (MPE 3 on our Series II), MPE
: will assume that when a non alphabetic character is entered, that the
: preceding alphabetic characters are the command, and everything else
: are the parameters.

Which is why MPE/iX works this way.  In fact, in early pre-releases of
MPE XL, it didn't work this way...and lots of ingrained human behaviors
stopped producing the expected result.  Most notably ":REPLY36,7".  So,
we opted for supporting forward compatibility of this feature.

Mike P.
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