RE: Back to the wayback machine - who remembers subfiles?

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Heh!  I remember subfiles - I'm working on them right now.  :-)
Is this an entry subfile or a list?  Are you initialising all 70 records?

Buck 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:25 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Back to the wayback machine - who remembers subfiles?
> 
> I've got an oldtimey subfile question...
> 
> I've got a display file that currently shows two subfiles.  Each has 35
> entries, five per line.  They use SFLPAG(35), SFLSIZ(35) and SFLLIN(5).
> This sets up a nice array of 35 enterable fields.
> 
> I'd like to double the number of entries and still leave the screen
> handling under the control of the display file.  I can't for the life of
> me figure out how to do it.  I tried simply bumping SFLSIZ to 70, but when
> I do that, I can't use the roll keys.  So I added the ROLLUP and ROLLDOWN
> keys, and, as I expected, hitting a roll key acts in the program as if I
> hit enter.  I don't want to return to the program, I simply want to roll
> back and forth through the two pages.
> 
> What's the magic combination of keywords that allow this to happen?
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