DISPLAY in auto

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:12:53PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> Exit just exits the table, and since this was automatic, it doesn't mean
> much other than that no more automatic processing will be done. You still
> proceed on to input/output processing.

That's not the defined behavior of EXIT, is it, Brian?

All my doco says "exits the dclerk program to the operating system" or
things like that.

> Perhaps you want escape?

Nope.

> Or perhaps you want to set a variable, keep the exit so that you immediately
> jump to input/output, and then in input/output processing look for the
> variable and exit_with_value from there. Depending on your clerk/report
> command line or the choices you made at the iua menu, you might really exit
> or just return to entsel. I think you can do your test/exit from entsel to
> catch that.

I might have to do that, I guess, but Ken says EXIT is supposed to work
in auto the same way it works in input.

> Excuse me for being away from a computer yesterday and only seeing this
> within 24 hours instead of within the hour of you posting it. Sheesh.

Note the time difference between my own two postings...

Cheers,
-- jra
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