Screen ghost??

[Richard Kreiss]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-
> list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of ivan
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 5:05 PM
> To: filepro
> Subject: Re: Screen ghost??
> 
> 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'  "

Try this for you system call:

sy=" fesequip -sadd -lx -xa -d -t 130000 -r "<pm<" -h EQUIPMENT FILE"{""

System "$PFPROG/fp/dclerk"<sy

Not sure if this will work under *nix. However, I have found that fp running
on windows does not need the " marks.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
  





> 
> 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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