Write on automatic

[George Simon]

Quoting George Simon (Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:45:37 -0400):
[...]
> >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.
> That has been my experience.  Any assignment made in automatic gets
> written to disk when using *report without the need for a "write", but
> not in *clerk.

Changes to the current record made in automatic processing are written
to the record if and only if you are in update mode and subsequently
save the record.  This is true whether you are in *clerk or *report,
and regardless of any (ignored) WRITE statement.

The only difference here is that *clerk sometimes runs the automatic
processing when not in update mode, and *report is always in update
mode.

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