☜	Error Code M18 M[UMPS] by Example					☞

M18, Fixed length READ not greater than zero

Introduced in the 1995 ANSI M[UMPS] language standard.

When a Read command is executed, and an argument is of the form VARIABLE#LENGTH, this error will occur if the value of LENGTH is less than 1.

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