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CAM system doesn't support a few APT commands. How can I get around this?

CATEGORY: PROGRAMMING
TYPE: MACRO
IMS VERSION: ALL
PLATFORM: ALL

Because most CAM systems allow a great deal of freedom to insert comments, or PPRINT commands, IMSpost has been set up to allow special PPRINT strings to be interpreted as if they were APT commands.
To do this, simply use the special string POSTCMD, followed by the string in APT syntax format.
The IMSpost input file interpreter will read this statement as if it were a standard APT command.
For example:
PPRINT/POSTCMD,FEDRAT/100.0
PPRINT/POSTCMD,AUXFUN/123
PPRINT/POSTCMD,GOTO/1,2,3
will be interpreted by IMSpost to be:
FEDRAT/100.0
AUXFUN/123
GOTO/1,2,3

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