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# Notes on XCHANGE

With the recent release of XCHANGE into the Public Domain (QL version only), and the lack of available documentation (at least in North America), it became apparent that QL users needed something in addition to their knowledge of QUILL.

The following notes on XCHANGE have been extracted from the XCHANGE HELP and QUILL HELP files in order to provide QL users with some helpful documentation. Where necessary I have edited sections of these files and have added some additional text where necessary. As far as I see, Quill has the majority of NEW commands which were added to the second set of commands and had some of it’s commands added to the EXCHANGE set of commands (Format and Backup).