re: Interesting subfile "feature"

I haven't taken a look at the buffer to verify this (I trust your observation, Joe), but my first take on this would be that your display file is set up as OVERLAY PUTOVR and the output only fields have the OVRATR OVRDTA keywords associated with the fields.  This saves the system the trouble of resending information that is already displayed on the screen.

 

I would hypothesize that if these keywords were removed, the output fields will disappear from the input buffer.

 

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:38:50 -0500
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
Subject: Interesting subfile "feature"

An interesting little thing apropos of nothing... sometime, you might want
to take a look at a program listing that contains a subfile with some output
only fields.  You'll find that the output-only fields actually show up in
the input buffer.  Which means that, when you do a CHAIN or a READC on a
subfile, the output fields get updated with the contents of the record you
just read.

An interesting feature, to say the least.

Joe Pluta
www.plutabrothers.com