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Many of the ASPECT commands will report success or failure after they have completed execution. You can determine if a command returns success or failure by viewing the discussion of that command in the ASPECT help file and looking for a SF icon in the upper left corner. Checking for success or failure is always a good idea. There are two different methods to do so. The first uses a structure as such:

fopen 0 Fname READ TEXT
if success
   ;command was successful, do necessary steps. 
else
   ;command failed, perform error handling.
endif

The second way to check for success or failure looks like this:

if fopen 0 Fname READ TEXT   
   ;command was successful, do necessary steps.
else
   ;command failed, perform error handling.
endif

When I am debugging a script, I often use the usermsg command to output either success or failure in a message box so I can immediately determine what execution path my script took.

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