Hello David,

07 Oct 99 17:41, David Noon wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

DN> The definitive test is really an exact byte comparison on the string:

DN>      IF check == 'READY:' THEN

DN> Note the double equal sign.

I had tried that first, but once the ':' was present and another try the ':'
was not present (with the same syntax?), so I was confused and didn't try
more.

DN> I don't see any reason. In fact, checking the STATE would be
DN> marginally less overhead. Again, I would recommend an exact byte
DN> comparison:

DN>      DO WHILE STREAM(InFile,'STATE') == 'READY'

But when "READY:" is returned this returnes false? But I don't have time to
investigate this now.

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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