@ud does not register

[Dennis Malen]

Bob,

Are saying that there is no way that fileB @ud can be updated when we write
to fileB from a popup in fileA??

Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Stockler" <bob at trebor.iglou.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: @ud does not register


> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 06:40:01PM -0400, Dennis Malen wrote:
> | When you are in fileA and use:
> |
> | popup ("1","1") update fileB, 1
> |
> | and press <esc> <esc>, when you go into fileB and look at the screen you
see
> | that the information was posted but @ud did not register. It should have
> | shown today's day.
> |
> | What can I do to cause @ud to be updated when posting from fileA to
fileB.
>
> Nothing.
>
> I don't thoroughly understand @BD and @UD, but I have the following
> in my recently retrieved UNIX fp.4.8 man page file:
>
>      @BD - Last batch update.  (MM/DD/YY)
>            @BD is updated when a record is written to by a LOOKUP
>            to it, but not by straight processing by [dr]report.
>
>      @UD - The date the current record was last updated.  (MM/DD/YY)
>            @UD is updated when a record is created/modified when it's
>            saved from a screen in IUA.
>
> Bob
>
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