- Advanced Ways to Access Files:
  - Trimming is a Midas concept with a section of a file.
  - Trimmers in NeXtMidas are `(start:end)` where `start` is the inclusive starting offset starting (zero based) `end` is the exclusive ending offset. See File Trimmers under the Common Midas concepts section for more information.

        nM> noop apenny.prm(4:10) temp.tmp

    Creates a file called `temp` with 6 elements.
  - URLs and file trimming can be used powerfully in tandem.
  - For example:

        original: nM> noop http://nextmidas.com/nm/nxm/sys/dat/apenny.prm(0:10) temp.tmp (currently unavailable)
        alternative: nM> noop /opt/midas/nxmlatest/nm/nxm/sys/dat/apenny.prm(0:10) temp.tmp
        (where /opt/midas/nxmlatest is a softlink to your local nxm installation)

        nM> status temp.tmp

X-Midas Users Take Note:
X-Midas does not support the use of URLs or the use of the `nxm.` syntax. These were new features added to NeXtMidas that take advantage of the inherent capabilities of Java.

X-Midas Users Take Note:
X-Midas uses a `<myname>(i)` syntax to access data in a file. If `<myname>` is not a result, it is treated as a file name. NeXtMidas will not treat the name as a file, unless the syntax `FILE(myname)` is used.