UPDATE doesn't break debug?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Sat Mar 8 07:47:54 PST 2008


I'm working on some code where I need the user to go directly into the
screen, in update mode -- it's catching scans from a laser scanner --
and I'm using -xs rec1 to stand on a blank record, and UPDATE in
@ENTSEL to get into update mode.

Now, that works ok -- though it's a bit tough, apparently, to catch the
BRKY and exit it for some reason -- but my *real* problem is that I'm
having difficulty further down the code, and when I run the table in
-DB, *UPDATE does not take me to entry mode on the screen*.

*I* call that a bug, can anyone disagree?

It's not as annoying as the few Heisenbugs I've had in 20 years where
it worked ok in dclerk (where I could debug it), but broke in rclerk...
but those all date to 4.0.

Cheers,
-- jra
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