system command - problem resolved

[Dennis Malen]

Ken,

Give me some time to test your suggestions and observations and I will be 
back to you with the answers.

Thanks again,

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: "Fplist (E-mail)" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: system command - problem resolved


> Quoting Dennis Malen (Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:16:28 -0500):
>
>> John,
>>
>> Just got in from Chicago.
>>
>> For further clarification when we execute the program and use control L
>> in a screen that has no open fields, then the control L manually solves
>> the problem.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "open fields", and since you're not going
> into update on the screen, I'm not sure why fields on the screen would
> have any effect.
>
>> If the user executes the processing from a screen that does have open
>> fields then we have to manually do a control C and then a control L.
>
> So, Ctrl-L doesn't work if there are "open fields" on the screen?
>
> [...]
>> Here's the code we use:
>>
>> @keye
>>
>> Then: le="echo";lg="\"\\033&o";pa="Fvar
>> searchnum="{@rn{";CompileFile(\\"260268.cs\\");\\015\""
>>
>> Then: system le<lg{pa;le="";lg="";pa="";screen;end
>>
>> Note: I get the same result with or without "screen" on the second then
>> line.
> [...]
>
> Well, the screen command does make a difference, in that you are taken
> into update mode on the current screen.
>
> Again, this sounds like a bug in your terminal emulator.  (Either that,
> or the escape sequence you are sending does more than what you think.)
>
> Upon return from the SYSTEM command, filePro will clear and redraw the
> entire screen.  If part of the screen disappears, then the terminal
> emulator has ignored filePro's redraw somehow, or something about the
> escape sequence causes the terminal emulator to do something with the
> screen even after filePro has regained control.
>
> If you redirect the echo command to a file (following the directions
> posted here numerous times recently), do you lose part of the screen?
>
> If you do a simple "echo hello", do you lose part of the screen?
>
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