new problem with FORM...(helllllp!!!) :)

[Fairlight]

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "George Simon" <GSimon at americanriverintl.com>
> To: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>; <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:51 PM
> Subject: RE: new problem with FORM...(helllllp!!!) :)
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> 
> > Fairlight said:
> > "George came closest, as I said, with implying an extra "print"
> > before the exit.  Dunno if it was luck or good thinking,..."
> >
> > It was totally pure luck, a shot in the dark, obviously I was only
> > trying to waste some of your time. ;-)
> 
> OK, someone explain to me what I missed?

George making a lighthearted joke?

> I suggested you pay specific attention to whether the form(m) commands were 
> actually reached, and how often, by either msgbox or debug or both, which 
> you did, and which in fact showed you that there was an ordinary logic 
> problem and not a mysterious form(m) problem.

Actually, there was (for me) a "mysterious form problem" in that I had -no-
idea that END flushes a page of form out, resulting in the last one.  From
my perspective, that's arcane at first glance, although debatably it makes
sense and I can see why it would do it that way.  I'll agree it's arguably
a logic bug and not a problem -with- the command, just an idiosyncracy of
the command.

> I don't mind being wrong. I don't mind being the butt of a joke. But I do 
> prefer to get something out of it, most often education. So by all means, 
> educate me. How exactly did adding print statements in a clerk process do 
> anything at all? Let alone anything helpful? Let alone "come closer" than 
> above?

Because he suggested that I just needed another print statement.  I really
just needed another form statement, not print, but the principle was the
same.  That I happened to find out what I needed before I saw what he wrote
just adds to the kind of independant verification that, "Hey, this is
probably what's up."  You and I were still thinking, "Okay, one-step debug
it," which is perfectly fine by me.  George got a hole in one.

Dunno why your panties are in a bunch.  I was complimenting George's
intuition, not slighting your logic.  You're starting to sound like me on a
bad day, man.  Chill.

mark->
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