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system: You are Dave Shea, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Tyler Aviss about "Transparency, masking".

They wrote:
TA>Well, I found the solution to masking (using transparent
TA>area in pictures) in VB. However, I have VB5 (so I don't
TA>know if it works in vb4), and you'll need to get paint shop
TA>pro 4.1x (I have 4.12shareware). Once you get that, I'll
TA>tell you how to make a .GIF image with transparency... it's
TA>actually pretty easy. Mail me after you get PSP4, and I'll
TA>tell you more...

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assistant: I can make transparent .GIF's with Adobe PhotoDeluxe (which I have), but
I think that your solution won't work for me, cause VB4 doesn't load
.GIF's into Picture Boxes or Image Controls. Believe me, I've thought
about that one already. :)
Incidentally, I'd really like a copy of PSP4. Is there a local BBS I can
DL it from?
system: You are Mark Bappe, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Eileen Louise about "RE:".

They wrote:
->now here is a question.  the tab key of course isn't trappable (for obvious
->reasons) as such to my knowledge.  i have been trapping it involving focus
->events, but i do not love that kludge a bit.  now normally, i do not like
->override "windows default behavior" on keys.  but this seems to be an
->exceptions, as MS themselves have implemented this keystroke on
->complete a phrase.
->anybody have any ideas on how to do this cleanly?

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assistant: o
intellisense to
I haven't really dwelled into this (although I would like to), the
first thing that comes to mind when I think of trying to reproduce the
intellisense function of the new IDE, would almost be like the old method we
had to use in VB3, and VB4 to produce simulated Tool Tips.  IE another
form (no border with a label etc, that was shown during a mouse over
event (carefully placed) of course.
My thoughts would be to have a form with a list of the completed phrase
loaded into it.  Once you got the partial end of the phrase, and
selected your CTRL-SPACE seq, it would load this form up.  You then could
select your listitem via up and down arrows (or key presses) and then TAB to
unload and place the selected text into the document.  Since there is
only one control on the form there is no need to trap the TAB key (just
silence the beep with a keyascii = 0).  To speed the listbox on that form
to almost display instantly you can always keep the form loaded, but
invisible.
But I don't know this may be even more of a kludge than implementing
the TAB capture through the GotFocus/LostFocus methods.  I guess it all
depends on the effect that you are currently wanting to give the
application.  Like what method do you want to show the user the completed
phrase?
Just my 2 cents <VBG>.
Enjoy!
system: You are Christopher Greaves, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Eileen Louise about "VBA/VB5".

They wrote:
CG> proper place to pose questions both on VBA and VB5?
EL>well, randy is the moderator, but i41 am hard pressed to tell the

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assistant: difference
OK. here's a question, it's a "what's the difference" sort of
question.
In old WordBasic I got quite used to developing macros in
Normal.Dot and then when tested, Copying them to my user
template, and Deleting them from Normal.dot.
In VBA in Word97 I notice that within Normal.dot I have
"NewMacros", and within my user template "VBAMacros.DOT" I have
"NewMacros".
I developed two macros in "NewMacros" in Normal.dot, moved them
(copy, delete) across to VBAMacros.dot, then created two more
macros in Normal.Dot.
Now I can't copy NewMacros from Normal.Dot to VBAMacros.dot. I
can copy/paste the text across, but I figure there must be a
reaosn for Word97 instituting this extra layer of work for me.
What have I missed here?
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system: You are Christopher Greaves, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Tyler Aviss about "VBA/VB5".

They wrote:
TA>What is VBA?
TA>I know what VB5 is...

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assistant: Visual Basic for Applications. It's what Word97 and Excel97
macros are recorded in.
They'll be written in it, too, once I get the hang of it (grin!)
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system: You are Tyler Aviss, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dave Shea about "Higher graphics".

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assistant: Apparently, the .GIF file format can have built in transparancy... this means
that if you can load a GIF in VB, then you don't have to worry about lengthy
API procedure calls, but can instead edit your GIFS to have transparency. If
you can get (or have) Paint Shop Pro 4, tell me, I'll tell you 'bout the GIFS
transparancy setting. So far I have not figured out masking in PSP though (so
that a color appears transparent though a mask, or partially transparent-
like a cloud). But the GIF transparancy option is EASY!
system: You are Tyler Aviss, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dave Shea about "PSP 4".

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assistant: You can get PSP 4 from right here on THIS great BBS... maybe VB4 can't load
GIFS until the program is running, try loading a GIF after your program is
start with the function
[NAME OF IMAGE BOX].picture = loadpicture( [directory/file.gif] )
system: You are Tyler Aviss, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dave Shea about "Masking".

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assistant: It would be a lot better to use the GIF masking technique rather than BITBLT,
because as soon as you can't see the form, it loses the BITBLT image,
autoredraw has no effect on this... only a continuous loop updating the
BITBLT will work, and that means... FLICKER CITY!
Call me sometime (374-3464) on my personal line, I'll see what I can tell you
about VB.
Also... do you know anything about the VB midi procedures, I'm trying to play
MIDI without the *DAMN* OLE... OLE sucks...
Actually I can play the midi, I can stop the midi, but I can't tell when a
midi file has stopped playing on its own. If you want these procedures (plus
.wav playing procedures, without OLE)... I can give you a simple bit of
MMSYSTEM calling source code...
system: You are Laurent Trabattoni, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Randy Birch about "Delete file in vb".

They wrote:
>>Function EraseFile (Filename as String) as Boolean
>>  on error resume next
>>  kill Filename
>>  if err then EraseFile = False else EraseFile = True
RB>   EraseFile = Err = 0
>>end function
RB> When Err = 0, EraseFile is true; when its not, its false.

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assistant: Salut Randy,
Le  2/Sep/97, � 16:02,
RANDY BIRCH �crivait � LAURENT TRABATTONI :
[ replace ]
[ by ]
You can also define the function as a long, and simply do:
  EraseFile = Err
We can also use the 'SHFileOperation' API, as you say in an other
reply. There is many way to delete a file in vb. :)
a+, Laurent
system: You are Laurent Trabattoni, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Clint Heyer about "Opening large files".

They wrote:
CH> Okay, this is my problem:
CH> I need to open huge files into a variable or textbox.
CH> The OPEN command will not open files large enough.

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assistant: Hello Clint,
[... sample code deleted ...]
You could also try to open the file in a RichTextBox control.
RichTextBox is only limited with available memory, and there is
a method (or a property, i do not remember) to open the file in
it.
a+, Laurent
system: You are Christopher Greaves, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "VBA word97 "print" cmd?".

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assistant: I need help in Visual Basic for Applications, within Word97. If
this is not the right place to ask I'd appreciate directions,
thanks.
                        Specifically, Where does the Print
                        statement display?
Sub DisplayCharCode()
'
' DisplayCharCode Macro
' Display on the status bar the ascii code for the current character
'
Dim MyVar
MyVar = "Come see me in the Immediate pane."
Debug.Print MyVar
Debug.Print Selection
End Sub
The code above is a hybrid of my attempts to display the ascii
code at the text cursor location on the status bar. In WordBasic
(word6) I used:
        PRINT STR$(ASC(SELECTION$()))
In desperation I copied the three "myvar" lines from VBA help
screens in an attempt to see just where my results were being
displayed.
When I run the macro above, nowheere do I see the required text.
Thanks in advance for any hints, suggestions or tips.
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system: You are Tyler Aviss, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "MIDI... ooopsss".

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assistant: I was wrong... the midi procedures are not in mmystem.dll (unless you are
using win3.1, there are some in there them)... they are in winmm.dll
system: You are Dave Shea, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Tyler Aviss about "Higher graphics".

They wrote:
TA>Apparently, the .GIF file format can have built in transparancy... this
TA>that if you can load a GIF in VB, then you don't have to
TA>worry about lengthy API procedure calls, but can instead
TA>edit your GIFS to have transparency. If you can get (or
TA>have) Paint Shop Pro 4, tell me, I'll tell you 'bout the
TA>GIFS transparancy setting. So far I have not figured out
TA>masking in PSP though (so that a color appears transparent
TA>though a mask, or partially transparent- like a cloud). But
TA>the GIF transparancy option is EASY!

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assistant: mean
Yeah, I've thought of this, but like I said... VB4 doesn't load .GIF's,
unfortunately.
system: You are Dave Shea, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Tyler Aviss about "Psp 4".

They wrote:
TA>You can get PSP 4 from right here on THIS great BBS...
TA>maybe VB4 can't load GIFS until the program is running, try
TA>loading a GIF after your program is start with the function
TA>[NAME OF IMAGE BOX].picture = loadpicture( [directory/file.gif] )

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assistant: Yup, I've heard that... =o)
Nope, didn't work either. VB4 only supports .BMP's and .ICO's. =o( Guess
I've got to use the other methods. Gonna UL that file to DE soon?
system: You are Dave Shea, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Tyler Aviss about "Masking".

They wrote:
TA>It would be a lot better to use the GIF masking technique
TA>rather than BITBLT, because as soon as you can't see the
TA>form, it loses the BITBLT image, autoredraw has no effect
TA>on this... only a continuous loop updating the BITBLT will
TA>work, and that means... FLICKER CITY!
TA>Call me sometime (374-3464) on my personal line, I'll see
TA>what I can tell you about VB.
TA>Also... do you know anything about the VB midi procedures,
TA>I'm trying to play MIDI without the *DAMN* OLE... OLE
TA>sucks...
TA>If you want these procedures (plus .wav playing procedures,
TA>without OLE)... I can give you a simple bit of MMSYSTEM
TA>calling source code...

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assistant: This doesn't matter. I'll find a way around it. I always do, ask anyone
in the QUIK_BAS echo. =o)
You don't want me to do this. I've got a million questions so far. =o)
Nope, OLE is the only way I could possibly think of. Without being able
to use OUT commands, I couldn't suggest anything. I guess there are API
calls dealing with this, though?
Hey, UL it to DE! UL anything useful you've got to DE! I'm totally
interested. =o)
system: You are Kenneth Danner, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Eileen Louise about "Delete file in vb".

They wrote:
EL> Hi Kenneth,
EL> that is a whole lot of stepping to kill a file.
EL> if you want to do the same thing try this ...
EL>
EL> on error resume next
EL> call filelen(sfile)
EL> if err = 0 then kill sfile
EL>

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assistant: Yes I see it is. Thanks for your help.
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system: You are Gajanan Raje, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bucky Carr about "VB 4 pro".

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assistant: Thanks for the suggestion.  I will call Peripherals Plus and check with them.
 I am still looking for VB 4.0 because I want to convert my application
written in PowerBasic (which runs under DOS) to run under windows 3.1 and
windows 95.
system: You are Tyler Aviss, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dave Shea about "Higher graphics".

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assistant: Check your CD for an example called CALLDLLS.... it has a bitblt transparancy
function in it
system: You are Andreas Wieneke, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Analyse VB Projects".

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assistant: Hallo All,
is there a programm that analyses my VB-projects, that I can easily see which
functions and subs are called and from what subs? Maybe as a treedraw, or as
a structured diagramm like this?
   /---------/
  / Button1 /
 /---------/
      |
 |---------|      |---------|
 |  proc1  |-call-|  proc2  |
 |---------|      |---------|
      |
     / \
    /   \
   /     \___no____
   \     /         |
    \   /          |
     \ /      |---------|      |---------|
      | yes   |  proc3  |-call-|  proc4  |
      |       |---------|      |---------|
 |---------|
 |  proc5  |
 |---------|
 /\      \    /
/--\ndreas\/\/
Et is wie et is, et k�tt wie et k�tt un et h�tt no immer joodjejange!
system: You are Emmanuel Berlemont, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Eileen Louise about "MDI problem".

They wrote:
EB> How can I print only a selected part of this file ?
EL> the mechanics of the code are dependent on your specifics,
EL> but basically, use the value of .seltext to print what is
EL> selected.

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assistant: Hi Eileen!
Eileen Louise �crivait dans un message � Emmanuel Berlemont:
Thanks...:)
                             B y e . . .
                                                N e P h
system: You are Francois Roy, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Andreas Wieneke about "Analyse VB Projects".

They wrote:
AW> is there a programm that analyses my VB-projects, that I can easily see
AW> which functions and subs are called and from what subs?

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assistant: The problem with event-driven programming is that many subs (like, for
example, the Click subroutines under your buttons and such) are called not by
other parts of the program, but by user actions.
 The project would more likely look like a forest of shrubs instead of a
single tree :-)
system: You are Dave Shea, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Tyler Aviss about "Higher graphics".

They wrote:
TA>Check your CD for an example called CALLDLLS.... it has a
TA>bitblt transparancy function in it

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assistant: Hey, yeah... I guess I should check out those sample programs a bit, eh?
=o) I'll see what I can make of it. Thanks a lot.
system: You are Daniel Aoyagi, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Eileen Louise about "Game".

They wrote:
EL> don't mind the data being accessible) or writing to an address block
EL> inside of the exe (a pain to set up but works very well after that.)

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assistant: Hi!
Tks for your help!
I've decided to use a .dat file, it's less complicated!
[]'s Daniel
... Bingo no Iraque: F-18,A-10,F-117,B-52,F-15....
system: You are Tyler Aviss, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Eileen Louise about "Masking".

They wrote:
EL> Hi Tyler,
EL>      Quoting Tyler Aviss to Dave Shea on Wednesday September 24 1997
EL> you can find a set of lightweight ocx's to handle both
EL> of the things you and dave have been discussing from
EL> tegosoft.  the cheap version is winG, not directx.
EL> there are about a dozen or so ocx's and the price is
EL> roughtly $30.
EL> it's tegosoft.com.

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assistant: Actually, I was just there yesterday, as soon  as I figure out the US/CANADA
exchange for credit cards, I think I'll try
system: You are Dave Shea, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Eileen Louise about "Transparent Image Contro".

They wrote:
EL>Wondows Common Controls is a set of OCX controls you can reference and use
EL>your programming efforts.  Go into componbets and you will
EL>find it in the list under microsoft windows common
EL>controls.  check that box and those controls will appear in
EL>your toolbox.  imagelist is the one thatlooks like a little
EL>stack of image controls.

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assistant: i
Is this a Win95 thing? I can't find this particular control...
system: You are Ed De.Jong, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Francois Roy about "GPF on change/end Project Group...".

They wrote:
FR>
FR>  Have you installed the service pack from Microsoft's Web site yet?

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assistant: Hallo Francois
Yes ! But I found the solution by changing the order of the projects in the
VB group-file.
Ed
system: You are Ed De.Jong, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Eileen Louise about "GPF on change/end Project Group...".

They wrote:
EL>
EL> are you by any chance running the ie4 kernel?  this will cause the
EL> situation you describe.  applying the VB service pack may solve it ... i
EL> don't know.

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assistant: Hallo Eileen
On my PC the service pack II is installed, but that is not the solution. I
found the solution by changing the order of the projects in the VB
group-file. The position of the User Controls in the VB group-file are moved
to the last position and the problems are gone !
Ed de Jong
ejong@AIRCHIPS.XS4ALL.nl
system: You are Jeff Foy, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Laurent Trabattoni about "Delete file in vb".

They wrote:
LT> We can also use the 'SHFileOperation' API, as you say in an other
LT> reply. There is many way to delete a file in vb. :)

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assistant: Would be nice if there were as many ways to do the opposite... :)
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system: You are Christopher Greaves, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Eileen Louise about "VBA word97 "print" cmd?".

They wrote:
EL>the VB editor by selecting view -> Immediate Window or pressing CTRL + G

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assistant: Eileen, thanks for this. I can see!
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system: You are Kenneth Danner, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bucky Carr about "Working With Dates".

They wrote:
BC> How are you storing the DATE in the random file?  As a DATA data type (I
BC> highly recommend doing that; takes only 8 bytes and can include time
BC> Whatever the users enter in FROM and TO, use the IsDate function to check
BC> that what they entered could be a date, then convert that to a DATE data
BC> type.  From thence, doing the comparison will be easy since VB treats
BC> the DATE data type as a special numerical type with negative values
BC> being dates before 12-30-1899.
BC>  If IsDate(Frm) then
BC>     FromDate = CDate(Frm)       ' this assumes you don't care about TIME
BC> of day
BC>   Else
BC>     some sort of error thingy here
BC>  End If
BC>  If IsDate(Td) then
BC>     ToDate = CDate(Td)          ' again, ignoring TIME of day
BC>   Else
BC>     some sort of error thingy here
BC>  End If
BC>
BC> Assuming the SearchDate value was stored in the random file as a DATE
BC> type.
BC>
BC>  KD>      If SearchDate >= FromDate AND SearchDate <= ToDate  Then
BC>  KD>          blah, blah, blah
BC>
BC> The above will then work as you wish.

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assistant: lue
I stored it as a long integer, First converted it using...
add.DateEntered = Format(Text1.Text,"yyyy", & "dd" & "mm")
ata
 Thanks I will have to look into that. I have alot to learn(I have only had
VB for about a month now).
I do thank you for helping out here. I need all the help I can get. I'll look
in the "Help" for the IsDate function to see how it works.
Thanks again.....
   Kenneth
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