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echo: muffin
to: Peter Knapper
from: Janis Kracht
date: 2007-01-07 15:29:38
subject: Why obsolete [hex] ?

Hi Peter,

>> Does anybody know why the [hex] token was made obsolete ?

> From the Maximus V2 docs -

> [hex] - %x

> This command is not needed by Maximus, and is included for
> OECC compatibility only.

> I have no idea what OECC is/was but obviously its not needed. If you wish to
> construct binary data then you can probably do that in MEX instead, MEX is
> quite capable.

That's Opus... Maximus was originally modeled after Opus if I remember
correctly ... OECC was opus and MECC was Maximus :)

Take care,
janis

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