Write on automatic

[John Esak]

> 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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> KenBrody at BestWeb dot net        spamtrap: <g8ymh8uf001 at sneakemail.com>

This answers the question... *report is _always_ in update mode, so changes
on any table will be stored. My point was that there was NO output table and
the fields were being changed only by the automatic table.

John