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- Subject: Re: variables (was: Re: Finding the CSD)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.184726.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 18:47:26 GMT
- References: <4813@svin09.info.win.tue.nl> <DBH.92Dec14185801@wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1992Dec16.191701.1@vxdesy.desy.de> <1gvqktINNimb@flipper.pvv.unit.no>
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- In article <1gvqktINNimb@flipper.pvv.unit.no>, dhmyrdal@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Dag H}kon Myrdal) writes:
- > I think that the following should work:
- > *set tmp <foo>
- > *setmacro <foo> <tmp> <thing>
- > *unset tmp
- > But I have to admit that I have not tried it... :-)
-
- No; *set tmp <foo> will set tmp to the current *value* of foo. What you want is
- to get at the equivalence string, otherwise it stops being a macro.
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