Originally Posted By: FullBoost
I have searched around and cannot get a clear answer as to what these commands do:
Did you look at page 108 of the manual? It provides a clear explanation of the parms "string",start,length.

The first line is looking only at the first 4 chars of the computer name while the second line looks at the first 9.
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