Re: Outline view doesn't list fields for output files

I probably didn't have the WRITE statement the first time. I added the
file and updated the outline so the fields would be handy while I coded
the updating of the output fields.

Thanks Barbara.

Rick

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 1:44 PM
> To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Outline view doesn't list fields for
> output files
>
> Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > Now it works.  I don't know what I did but it's pulling in
> the field
> > lists for my output files now.
> >
>
> Just a guess, but you probably added some WRITE statements to
> the output records.  Either of those would causing the O
> specs to get generated for your files, which would cause the
> output fields to be extracted.  (The outline view does a
> verify under the covers, and the verifier (like the
> compiler), doesn't generate the O specs for any output
> records that aren't used in the program.)
>
> Or you might have added a subprocedure.  The
> verifier/compiler will also generate the O specs for all
> output-capable files when it finds a P spec.  It does that in
> case the subprocedures have any output operations that need
> the O specs.  So, if you want the output fields in the
> outline view, but you don't want to add WRITE statements to
> your files yet, you can just code a blank P spec at the end
> of your source; it doesn't matter whether you actually have
> any procedures.
>
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