Cyril,

You do not need the semi-colon, and it will not work for the macro anyways, the following will work fine:

* PRETEXT 8 IS TO remove LF and NOSHOW so cancel display on screen
TEXT TO dothis NOSHOW PRETEXT 8
cmsg = 'A' +
'B'+ 'C'
ENDTEXT

&dothis
?cmsg

>I want to build a long command line.
>
>This works OK:
>

>TEXT TO dothis
>cmsg = 'A' + 'B'+ 'C'
>ENDTEXT
>
>&dothis
>?cmsg
>

>
>Now trying to build a multi-line command:
>
>

>
>TEXT TO dothis
>cmsg = 'A' + ;
>'B'+ 'C'
>ENDTEXT
>
>&dothis
>?cmsg
>

>
>This gives an error (with or without the semi-colon). Is there a way to build up a command over more than one line?
>Cyril