Tip of the day

Jeff Harrison jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 14 07:33:11 PST 2006


--- "Lerebours, Jose" <Jose.Lerebours at EagleGL.com>
wrote:

> Did you know?
> 
> If you run *clerk using a screen without open
> fields, 
> your input process starts running on line 1.
> 
> If you do same without input process at all, you can
> add 1000s of records per second.
> 
> This can be a nice way to run *clerk in lieu of
> *report
> when processing data and/or creating external
> documents
> (using IO functions or export command).
> 
> Of course, if you had an open field same can be done
> by simply using @wef trigger but, I've found that no
> fields on screen are a bid more elegant and offer 
> less to worry about - the field and the @wef
> trigger.
> 
> Regards;
> 
> 
> Jose Lerebours
> _______________________________________________

I would imagine that many people have found that out
by accident.  I know I did :-)  

Someone that I worked with in the past used to use
that trick regularly.  I stopped doing it when @menu
processing became available.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and
imports.


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