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In article <0.43520.20995.54682.9677@XV.MIT.EDU> you write:
>I'm having a little problem with ADVICEs in lyric.  I want to store them
>on a file, so I put (ADVICE fn-name) in the FILECOMS.  When I store
>the file, however, I do (MAKEFILE file-name '(FAST RC ST)) which
>I think reloads the file.  The advice then seems to double (that is, if I
>edit the ADVICE, I see that the same ADVICE has been applied twice).
>Worse, every time I MAKEFILE the file, I double it again, so after
>four or five tries, I get 16 or 32 copies of the ADVICE.  Also, the file

The instructions generated by the ADVICE in the FILECOMS no longer
overwrite the existing advice, they augments it.  Every time you load
the file, the advice will double.

We reported this exasperating behavior last fall. It was written up in
the AIS hotline Bulletin #10 (January 15, 1988). Aside from clearly
explaining the problem, the bulletin article has this to say:

WORKAROUND: NONE
REFERENCE: AR8495, AR9440

The only thing I've been able to do is always edit all the advice in
the file every time I do a repeated load in order to eliminate the
duplication.  (Guess how often I save advice to files these days?)
-- 
	-Rich Fritzson
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