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<DIV><SPAN class=468521200-28112004><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><STRONG>It's
amazing, but my initial investigations show that 9.0 AOL can NOT send text
messages. Sheesh, what a design decision that is.
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<DIV><SPAN class=468521200-28112004><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Good
luck,</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=468521200-28112004><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New"
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
filepro-list-bounces@lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces@lists.celestial.com]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>Transpower@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:39
PM<BR><B>To:</B> kenbrody@bestweb.net<BR><B>Cc:</B>
filepro-list@seaslug.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Conditional Array
Definitions<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0
face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">In a message dated 11/27/2004
6:18:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, kenbrody@bestweb.net writes:<BR><BR>
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TYPE="CITE">I didn't see the message to which John is replying,
but...<BR><BR>I see nothing "counter-intuitive" about declarations being
just that.<BR>They declare the variable. They do not generate any
code. They do not<BR>need to be executed.<BR><BR>And, excluding Visual
BASIC's "DIM" command, nothing else comes to mind<BR>as an example of "most
other computer languages" where you must actually<BR>execute a variable
declaration. (Not that I've thought about it very<BR>hard, mind
you.)<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Ken:<BR><BR>Well, filePro processing was
roughly based on Basic...<BR>In TrueBASIC, one uses a DIM statement at the
beginning, usually setting an array to minimal dimensions (i.e., 1);
then, in the body of the code, a MAT REDIM statement is inserted to resize the
array to fit the current running problem. This is probably what the
original poster had in mind.<BR><BR>I've checked through some of my existing
filePro commercial code and cannot find any place where I've conditionally
DIM'd an array by itself. I did find one place where I did that along
with setting other variables on the same line. No harm, no foul, I
guess. There is no syntax error or warning message if one defines an
array with an If statement. Something like: "Note: the array will
be defined whether the condition is true or not." The only downside is
an increase in memory, which given the tremendous amount of RAM in existing
computers, is not a problem...at lease most of the time.<BR><BR>As far as HTML
mail, I'm using whatever AOL 8.0 mails; my AOL 9.0 program crashed a long time
ago--some C language DLL seems to be corrupted and uninstalling and
reinstalling doesn't correct the problem. If I could configure AOL 8.0
to send out plain text I certainly
would.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>RWS<BR>transpower@aol.com<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>