Date: 15 Jul 1993 11:55:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "John B. McVey (203) 727-7084" Subject: Future Basic Technical Notes - Vol 2 The attached are Technical notes of interest to Future Basic programmers. Suggested file name is future-basic-tn-vol2.hqx;. Suggested directory is /dev/info/ The notes are Vol. 2 of 2 volumes published to date and were furnished by the Future Basic publisher technical help department with the understanding that the notes would be made available on the Net. This file contains technical notes that provides solutions to some problems encountered when programming in FutureBasic. 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