GIS Students: There is a command-line oriented method for using Info's ALTER command that is particularly useful for changing item names as you are doing with the INSIDE items of buffered coverages. Instead of specifying a bunch of carriage returns with [UNQUOTE ' '], you can specify all of the parameters ALTER wants on the command line, each parameter separated by a comma. To change an item name, the first parameter is the original item name, the second is the new item name, and the others you wish to use default settings (that is, don't change any of them). For example: ALTER INSIDE,RDBUF,,,,,,, will do the trick. That's *7* commas after RDBUF -- any other choice will bomb the program out. This should make your programs a bit shorter.

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