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| Preface | |
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| Introduction to MUMPS | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Introduction to MUMPS | |
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| A Brief History of MUMPS | |
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| The MUMPS Development Committee (MDC) | |
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| MUMPS Users' Group | |
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| Availability of MUMPS | |
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| How to Use MUMPS | |
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| Signing onto MUMPS | |
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| Issuing MUMPS Commands from the Keyboard | |
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| Entering and Editing Programs | |
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| Loading a Program from Disk | |
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| Executing a Program | |
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| Exiting MUMPS | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| The MUMPS Environment | |
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| Interpreters | |
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| Concept of Directories and Partitions | |
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| Partitions | |
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| Directories | |
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| Name Spaces: Local and Global | |
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| Jobs (Processes) | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| MUMPS Commands | |
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| Assignment Commands | |
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| SET Command | |
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| KILL Command | |
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| NEW Command | |
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| Conditional Commands | |
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| IF Command | |
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| ELSE Command | |
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| FOR Command | |
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| Flow Control Commands | |
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| GOTO Command | |
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| DO Command | |
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| QUIT Command | |
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| HALT Command | |
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| XECUTE Command | |
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| Input/Output Commands | |
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| OPEN Command | |
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| USE Command | |
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| READ Command | |
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| WRITE Command | |
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| CLOSE Command | |
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| PRINT Command | |
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| System and Miscellaneous Commands | |
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| BREAK Command | |
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| HANG Command | |
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| JOB Command | |
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| LOCK Command | |
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| VIEW Command | |
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| ZLOAD Command | |
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| ZINSERT Command | |
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| ZREMOVE Command | |
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| ZPRINT Command | |
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| ZSAVE Command | |
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| Miscellaneous Z Commands | |
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| Summary | |
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| Data Structures | |
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| Strings | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Exponential Notation | |
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| Numeric Interpretation of Strings | |
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| Boolean (True/False) | |
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| Variables | |
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| Local Variables | |
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| Arrays | |
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| Globals | |
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| System Variables | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Expressions | |
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| Numeric Operators: +, -, *, **, /, \, and # | |
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| Unary Operators: + and - | |
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| Binary Numeric Operators | |
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| String Operators: Concatenate, -(Underscore) | |
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| Logical and Relational Operators: ], [, = [,], ?, and, !, and' | |
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| Numeric Relational Operators | |
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| String Relational Operators | |
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| Logical Operators | |
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| Combined Operator Types | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| MUMPS Syntax | |
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| Commands | |
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| Command Arguments | |
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| Implied Commands | |
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| Command Abbreviation and Command Case | |
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| Conditional Execution of Commands | |
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| Timed Commands | |
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| Comments | |
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| Lines | |
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| Subroutines (Parts) | |
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| Routines | |
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| Programs | |
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| Block Structuring | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Indirection | |
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| XECUTE Command | |
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| Indirection Operator | |
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| Name Indirection | |
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| Argument Indirection | |
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| Pattern Indirection | |
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| Subscript Indirection | |
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| Dynamic Routine Linking | |
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| Indirection: Cautions and Caveats | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Intrinsic Functions | |
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| String Functions | |
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| $EXTRACT | |
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| SPIECE Function | |
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| $LENGTH Function | |
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| $FIND Function | |
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| $TRANSLATE Function | |
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| $JUSTIFY Function | |
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| $FNUMBER Function | |
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| $ASCII Function | |
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| $CHAR Function | |
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| $TEXT Function | |
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| Data Functions | |
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| $DATA Function | |
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| $ORDER Function | |
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| $NEXT Function (OBSOLETE) | |
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| $QUERY Function | |
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| $GET Function | |
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| Other Functions | |
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| $SELECT Function | |
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| $RANDOM Function | |
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| $VIEW Function | |
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| $Z... Functions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Parameter Passing and Extrinsic Functions | |
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| Parameter Passing with the DO Command | |
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| Passing Parameters by VALUE | |
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| Parameter Passing by REFERENCE | |
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| Extrinsic Functions | |
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| Extrinsic Variables | |
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| Subroutine Libraries | |
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| Conversion of $H Time and Date to Readable Format | |
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| Check and Conversion of Numbers | |
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| Numeric Conversion between Bases | |
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| Simple Statistics | |
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| An Extrinsic Function to Replace Strings | |
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| Parameter Passing with the JOB Command | |
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| Technique and Style | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Advanced Global Techniques | |
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| Introduction to Globals | |
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| Subscripts | |
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| Subscript Collating Sequence | |
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| $ORDER and $DATA Functions | |
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| Naked Global References | |
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| The LOCK Command | |
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| Global Extensions | |
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| Distributed Databases | |
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| Replication | |
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| Journaling | |
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| Global Security | |
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| Advanced Examples: Global Dumps and Copy Utilities | |
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| Database Design | |
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| Inverted or Key Indexes | |
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| Reference Files | |
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| Searching and Sorting | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| MUMPS Internals | |
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| Global Disk Files | |
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| Adding Data to a B-Tree | |
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| B-Tree Variants | |
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| Multiple Subscript Levels | |
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| Key Compression | |
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| Deleting Data from a B-Tree | |
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| Buffering | |
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| Storage Efficiency Considerations | |
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| Database Errors | |
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| MUMPS Program Execution | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Device Input/Output | |
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| General I/O Environment | |
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| The Principal Device | |
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| System Variables Associated with I/O Operations | |
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| Devices | |
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| Video Terminals | |
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| Printing Terminals | |
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| Magnetic Tape Drives | |
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| Sequential Disk Files | |
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| Print Spool Devices | |
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| Miscellaneous Devices | |
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| Advanced Topics on Device I/O | |
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| Screen Handling Utilities | |
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| Keyboard Input: Single-Character READ Function | |
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| Option Lists and Multiple-Choice Questions | |
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| Editing Keyboard Read | |
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| Question Driver | |
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| Summary of Advanced I/O Topics | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| Error Processing | |
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| Trapping Errors | |
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| Debugging Programs | |
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| Chapter Highlights | |
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| MUMPS: The Evolving Language | |
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| Networking | |
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| Networking between MUMPS Implementations | |
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| Networking with Non-MUMPS Environments | |
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| Enhanced Device Control | |
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| Access to Other Languages | |
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| Use of Alternative Character Sets | |
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| Standardized Error Processing | |
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| Miscellaneous Language Changes | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| ASCII Character Set | |
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| Selected MUMPS References | |
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| Summary of MUMPS Commands | |
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| Summary of MUMPS Intrinsic Functions | |
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| Summary of MUMPS Operators | |
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| Summary of System Variables | |
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| Documentation for Selected Subroutines | |
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| RS-232 Devices | |
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| Terminal Functions | |
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| Index | |