Joy,
The UT is ALWAYS willing to complicate your life by giving you more than one answer :-)

In your code below, the '&' IS a macro sign. The code links the value of myvar1 with the macro-value of myvar2. Because of debugging problems, I wouldn't encourage this kind of code. (IMHO)

Barbara

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>You crazies. Thanks.
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>One more thing--the & symbol--I use macro substitution (&) all the time, and am aware of && for commenting, but I'm sure, when I wrote this note, admittedly long ago, that I saw it being used differently--perhaps something like
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>myvar1&myvar2
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>Any clue?
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>JR