Fawaz, No, it won't speed up your app. It will speed up your getting carpel tunnel syndrome. Equates are used for several purposes. In this case it looks as if they are being used to reduce the number of keystrokes the programmer will have to make.
HTH, Gordon J. Glorfield Sr. Applications Developer MAMSI (A UnitedHealth Company) 301-360-8839 [snip] > I have a UniBasic program with hundreds of equate > statements like > > EQU V.SEC.SYNONYM TO COURSE.SECTIONS.REC.TABLE<I.COURSE.SECTIONS,15> > > and only thing they do is assign it to a PRINT.VAR > > PRINT.VAR = V.SEC.SYNONYM:" ":.......... > > I am planning to take off the equate and assign the > variable directly to the PRINT.VAR > > PRINT.VAR = > COURSE.SECTIONS.REC.TABLE<I.COURSE.SECTIONS,15>:" > ":...... > > Will this speed up the process? Since we are passing > the information to .NET with XML tags, any improvement > to the speed is desirable. [snip] This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users