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Host env. not found

    20-Nov-93 08:27:43
Fm: Bill Hawes 72230,267
To: Robert Wilcox 70107,717
Close, but not quite accurate. The ADDRESS instruction has several different forms, one of which allows a command to be sent to a host defined as a literal symbol or string. For example, ADDRESS COMMAND 'status' sends 'status' to the COMMAND host. If the desired host address is contained in a variable, you must use the form ADDRESS value varname to change the host address, and then simply issue the command, as in 'mycommand' myarg1 myarg2 It's not possible to both change the host address and issue a command with a single instruction. The current setting of the default host can be retrieved for later use with the address() function. -Bill Hawes