>One was an ERRMSG$. The conversion manual says it is gone, but give no
>suggestions of what should replace it. Or maybe I do not need to replace
>it--just drop it?


Replace ERRMSG$ with your own error strings. Use FB II to print a list of the 
error messages from 0 to 12 and then just rewrite the strings in FB ^3. For 
example,
PRINT ERRMSG$(1)
would be:
PRINT "End of file error."


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