Richard Goodman wrote:
> 
>  Peter Bancroft wrote:
> 
> TIMER once set going never stops running. You can't turn it off. It's been
> this way forever.
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> Yes, I understand that. When I want to "disable" TIMER, I simply set TIMER
> to some very large value so that my timer routine won't be accessed. When I
> want to resume TIMER activation, I reset TIMER to the proper value.
> 
> My question had to do with error messages I got with certain TIMER
> statements that appear in the reference manual:
> 
> ON TIMER END, ON TIMER OFF, TIMER(0) OFF, and TIMER OFF.
> 

There is a mistake in the Reference Manual it seems. No such
statements as ON TIMER END and ON TIMER OFF.
The correct statements are TIMER END and TIMER OFF.
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Cheers,

Alain