Write on automatic

[John Esak]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Simon [mailto:flowersoft at compuserve.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 7:24 AM
> To: john at valar.com; Fplist (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Write on automatic
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>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
> To: "Fplist (E-mail)" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 7:38 PM
> Subject: Write on automatic
>
>
> >
> >
> > Somehow, I did not see my own message of today about this
> topic. Jim Asman
> > and Mike Schwartz who are in the FP Room at this moment say it
> made it to
> > the list... Sorry, I can't attach this to that thread... but it
> just did
> > not
> > make it inot my folder. All the other messages of today did... Can't
> > understand it... Anyway... ken,
> >
> > Why did the field get changed when I did the:
> >
> >    dreport filename -fp "" -a -u
> >
> > I assumed only the AUTOMATIC table is run in this circumstance. Is that
> > right? If so, then wouldn't this mean that the change took place on the
> > AUTOMATIC table and the WRITE worked. Or is it some action of
> dreport just
> > running output processing that does it?
> >
> > John
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> What happens if you run the same report without the WRITE?

Excellent question George... But I almost didn't see it because somehwo it
was indented with a > as if it was part of previous content... ????
Anyway, I ran the report as above without the WRITE on the auto table... and
BANG! field 1 on every record is changed to "14".

What this seems/appears to say is that any assignments made on the AUTOMATIC
table are written and stored to the file during *report. Certainly does not
work this way in *clerk.

Ken? Is this part of what you were talking about where the automatic table
_does_ lock the record... I can't find that response. In any case, what's up
with the  -fp ""  Does it run any true OUTPUT table? No, right?  So, is it
the AUTOMATIC which is doing the WRITE as it appears to be? (Well, not a
specific WRITE since I removed that as George suggested and it _still_
stores the assignment.

John