At 09:25 -0700 05/30/2002, Rozan wrote:

>If I wanted to have an alert with the number of days remaining, how
>would I get that variable to show up in the box?

Do the subtraction, but put the variable into the alert:

   nDays = value(saveddate) - the systemdate
   ALERT "You have" && nDays && "day(s) remaining..."

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