get clerk to act like report

[Joe Chasan]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 04:57:29AM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> I want to run a report that just calls a call table once for each record.
> 
> Except in that call table I want to issue form commands, so I need clerk 
> not report. Or else I need report with system clerk commands just to do 
> the forms, which I would rather avoid.
> 
> Records are selected via selection set. So the main input processing is 
> just one line to call the call table. Except that by itself doesn't 
> actually work. It just sits there at entsel on the first record. If I 
> make the table:
> ---top---
> end
> @entsel
> call "mytable"
> end
> ---end---
> 
> Then I can walk the records and the call table runs on each, by pressing 
> enter. But that's no good and I can't believe that adding a pushkey is 
> really the answer either :)

> So how can I construct an input processing and clerk command line
> options so that clerk will essentially behave as report and run once per
> selected record and then exit at the end of the selected records?

Kinda messy, but have dreport call clerk separately for each record
with selection set of @rn eqf @pm - and add -r of @rn where dreport calls 
dclerk.

then just change your "end" at end of @entsel to "exit"
 
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