Changed behavior of show "@"

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Barry Wiseman (Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:05:32 -0400):

> Following his upgrade, a client reported that a certain popup message
> had disappeared.  I found that the code read,
>
> 	show ("24","20") "@blah blah blah"
>
> and that clerk was disregarding the "@" and immediately continuing
> without pausing at a "press enter to continue" message.  Other show
> "@" statements without the position parameter are working correctly.
>
> Upon reflection it's obvious that the above is just dumb code and that
> (r,c) and "@" are mutually exclusive features of SHOW.  But somewhere
> on the road to 5.0.14 the rule of which one gets ignored has changed.
>
> Just thought I'd drop this "heads up" on the list.  I don't remember
> any mention of this in the release notes (he said, lazily refusing to
> go and check :-) ).

Yes, this was a bugfix some time ago, where a show with row/col of a
message that started with "@" was treated as a non-positioned "press
enter to continue" show.  I don't recall offhand when the fix was done.

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