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Baffled by Benchmark

    05-Dec-87 06:32:40
Fm: Thomas Holaday 70407,534
To: Richard Bielak 75716,352
Ahh, some light is dawning. When I pass a string to a menu, AmigaDOS sez "gee, the guy's already got that doggone thing somewhere in memory since it's living in his program, so why should I make another copy just to splatter onto the screen? I'll just use his original. A byte saved is a byte earned." Now here I was, a diskette full of menu titles, all set to begin a loop which would read the first title into a little buffer, set up a menu, read the next title into the buffer, set up another menu, until EOF; and _now_ I learn that this important application is _impossible._ Oh woe is me.