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Re: case sensitive file test

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Date Thu, 04 Jun 2020 17:51:27 +0100
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<a248d019-7c38-439a-8d5f-62d6d817a285@googlegroups.com>,
   <jgh@mdfs.net> wrote:
> Similarly, if there's some I/O information that won't change over
> the run of a program, read it once into a variable, then access the
> variable.

> For example:
>  size%=EXT#inputfile then use size% instead of EXT#

Excellent advice, in general ... but this example ...

> If your program is never going to change screen mode:
>  SYS whatever TO xsz%,ysz%,etc then use xsz% and ysz%

is a bad one, because if it is a Wimp program the mode is usually
changed outside your program, so ModeChange messages have to be
watched for and the relevant variables read again.

-- 
Martin Avison 
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