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<HR><H2>RE: Creating buffers.. HELP!</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sun Oct 30 14:50:00 1994
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From: brandon@avon.declab.usu.edu
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 94 12:46:46 -0700


&lt;&gt; I'm trying to send a specific byte string.  Why does this generate a
&lt;&gt; syntax error???
&lt;&gt; 
&lt;&gt; echo(%[0,x,y,width,height]);
&lt;
&lt; Probably because, last I looked, the notation for a buffer was `[], not %[]

Actually it is the documentation's fault.  In the ColdMUD manual it lists
a buffer as %[], not `[].  I figure at some point buffers were %[] and when
Greg changed them he forgot to update the manual (shrug).

-Brandon
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