system command - problem resolved

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Dennis Malen (Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:40:42 -0500):

> Ken,
>
> The existence of the SCREEN command affected our manual resolution
> which was if we were in a screen that possessed an unprotected field
> then we had to do two things: Ctrl-C (get us out of update) and Ctrl-L
>(redraw the screen). If in a screen with all protected fields, then we
> only had to Ctrl-L.

Once more:  does Ctrl-L not work while in update on the screen?

> I can only tell you that "noredraw" worked. If we left it out we got
> hung up. Simple, so when filePro attempted to redraw the screen the
> system got hung up when "noredraw" was not present.

Define "got hung up".

> It appears in filePro's attempt to redraw the screen when "noredraw"
> is not present causes the cursor to hang at the end of the top third
> of the screen.

Sounds more and more like a terminal emulator bug.

> When "noredraw" was present filePro did not attempt to redraw the
> screen as the screen was viewable for the user to see. Again, when
> filePro attempts to redraw the screen we have a problem. You may be
> right that it should not act that way but it does.
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