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Real number fields: MX uses the '''locale''' to decide what character (decimal comma or decimal point) separates integer and decimal parts of numbers. Every line of the file must be consistent in use of integer/decimal separator. C1 used the '''Region''' settings in Microsoft's Control Panel to determine how to store (and output) numbers for you, but (except if ''list separation character'' was comma) was fairly tolerant when reading old data in files.
Real number fields: MX uses the '''locale''' to decide what character (decimal comma or decimal point) separates integer and decimal parts of numbers. Every line of the file must be consistent in use of integer/decimal separator. C1 used the '''Region''' settings in Microsoft's Control Panel to determine how to store (and output) numbers for you, but (except if ''list separation character'' was comma) was fairly tolerant when reading old data in files.
Time-stamp fields: MX insists on HH:mm format being consistently used in every line of file, C1 did not care what (non-space, non-field separator) symbol separated the minutes from the hours.


Number of fields: The number of fields in the file increases in various versions as shown in [[#List_of_fields]].   
Number of fields: The number of fields in the file increases in various versions as shown in [[#List_of_fields]].   
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