Writing to Real Fields in Automatic Processing Tables

[Bruce Easton]

I interjected:
>
> All right - that's it, Bob look what you did - you went and changed
> the subject.  Meet me at:
> http://games.adoption.com/free-online-games/Battleship
>
> Bruce

Like I have the time :)  Actually it's time for a fresh subject. Thanks.

>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces+bruce=stn.com at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+bruce=stn.com at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf
> > Of Bob Stockler
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 5:58 PM
> > To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > Subject: Writing to Real Fields in Automatic Processing Tables
> >
> >
> > Ken Brody wrote (on Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 05:16:17PM -0400):
> >
> > | Note that the only reason this is allowed by filePro is that the
> > | original versions of filePro didn't disallow it, and too many
> > | people wrote (broken) code that depends on this (broken) ability.
> > | Disallowing it would "break" the (already broken, but "working")
> > | code that depends on this.
> >
> > Many years ago, in a land far away, there was a filePro presence
> > on CompuServe, and on that forum . . .
> >
> >   It took many of us (some still on *this* list) quite a bit of time
> >   to convince another subscriber to this list (George Simon) that it
> >   wasn't "right" to "write" to REAL fields in Automatic Processing
> >   Tables.
> >
> > Anyone on this list (including George) is encouraged to confirm or
> > deny/correct my (admittedly decreasing as age increases) memories.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > PS - The only time I wrote to a REAL field in Automatic Processing
> >      was in a work-around situation where I was using Bob Snapp's
> >      "Address Matching - Address Correction" software.  filePro's
> >      limits of the number lines in a processing table at the time
> >      prevented me from putting all of Snapp's code in the input
> >      table, so I put it in the automatic table, accesed it there,
> >      and went back to the input table.  That code in the automatic
> >      table was never reached unless it was accessed via the input
> >      table that required it.
> >
> > --
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