RE: Interesting subfile "feature" -- MIDRANGE-L

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Joe P wrote:
>Interestingly enough, though, this behavior was not 
>duplicated for a regular record format, so if you 
>change the contents in the program of an output
>field on a non-subfile record, the READ the record 
>and WRITE it, the display will change.  I guess the 
>idea is that the CHAIN/UPDAT scenario is far more
>common than the READ/WRITE concept.

I always thought it was because the program can readily store the fields for
a regular record, but you'd have to build some array or multiple occurrence
data structure to mirror all the output fields in a subfile.  I mimic the
"input buffer effect" by using PUTOVR with OVRDTA on say, the error message
field.

Buck 
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