In a message dated 10-10-99, Eddy Thilleman said to David Noon about "hstart
wget?"

Hi Eddy,

DN>      IF check == 'READY:' THEN

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

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

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

The 'READY:' string is returned by the STREAM() function when the second
argument is 'COMMAND' [such as 'OPEN'], whereas the 'READY' string (without
a colon) is returned when the second argument is 'STATE'.

Simple as that.

Regards

Dave

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