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M[UMPS] Functions - $WTW[IDTH]

Introduced in the 1995 ANSI M[UMPS] Windowing Application Programmer’s Interface standard.

This function returns a value that indicates how much space it takes to reproduce a string in a specific font.

SET TXT="This text needs to be printed."
SET F="COURIER",N="NORMAL",PT="POINT"

This means that it will take a space of 196 points to display the string that is stored in TXT.

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