Screen ghost??

[ivan]

I was hoping that would be the answer Nancy, but there is no show in that file. There is an input popup command in the line above the system command but that variable is only 10 characters long.  When that line is disabled nothing changes.  Problem is still there.

Here is the system call we use:

system "$PFPROG/fp/dclerk fesequip -sadd -lx -xa -d -t 130000 -r \""&pm{"\" -h 'EQUIPMENT FILE'  "

This line is used in two files and one file runs great, no problems.  

The other file loads the screen, the debugger that is in the fesequip file shows at the bottom of the screen and the first line after the debug code shows: cr(7,rj), which is the line after a trigger key for getting into field 1, so it starts running some of the file, but then it is like it jumps into... space or something.  

If I hit the d then only a d appears on the screen, if I hit enter the screen jumps up a line for every time I hit enter.

What is throwing me is why it works fine in one file but not the other.  And why it would work fine under root for the file it doesn't in, but go through the problem I described when logged in under a regular user. 

So do you have any other ideas to look at?!?

-Ivan

--- On Tue, 1/5/10, Nancy Palmquist <nlp at vss3.com> wrote:

> From: Nancy Palmquist <nlp at vss3.com>
> Subject: Re: Screen ghost??
> To: "ivan" <deweyweekender at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "filepro" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 4:03 PM
> Ivan,
> 
> If you have a show at the bottom of the screen, such as:
> 
> show("23","1") variable
> 
> Where the variable might be longer than 80
> characters.  It will scroll the screen exactly as you
> indicate.  Fix would be to do this:
> show("23","1") variable{""
> 
> to remove any blank space at the end of the variable.
> 
> The debugger will often scroll the screen funny so I would
> not worry about that.  Try the command "D" in the
> debugger to redisplay the screen.
> 
> Nancy
> 
> ivan wrote:
> > Hi all.  I am having some difficulty tracking
> down an issue that one of our files is having.  We do a
> system call from two separate files to add information into
> another file. The call from one file works fine, and the
> exact same call from another file brings up the screen to
> add information, then if the user hits enter the screen
> jumps up one line at a time and not from field to field like
> it should be.  
> > Here's where I get confused... when I set the
> debugger, the screen loads and has a line of code at the
> bottom.  All is normal, then if I hit the enter key to
> jump to the next line of code the screen moves up a line
> like when not in debugger mode.  The line of code is
> just assigning a variable, so there isn't anything that
> should affect the screen.
> > 
> > Now if I run this as root, everything works fine. So I
> checked all of the permissions, mod, and owner of the two
> files that run these system calls and they are exactly the
> same.  So I'm a little lost here...  Anyone else
> have this problem? Anyone find a solution???
> > 
> > We are running filePro version 5.6.06 on a sco unix
> machine.
> > 
> > Losing more hair by the minute,
> > -Ivan Chason
> > 
> > 
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