BREAK ON fails after SCREEN

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Thu Mar 27 10:41:16 PDT 2014


On 3/27/2014 1:26 PM, Roger Cornelius wrote:
> That processing stops after execution of 'screen'.  My 3 line code
> snippet came from within @wbl processing.

Well, it would have helped if you included the critical piece of information 
that this was being from from within an @WBL handler.  Your "simplest case" 
example failed to show that as well.

>
> On 03/26/2014 13:26, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>> On 3/26/2014 1:19 PM, Roger Cornelius wrote:
>>> Ernie Barnard was kind enough to remind of SCREEN's behaviour, off-list.
>>> Thank you Ernie.
>>
>> And what behavior is that, which would prevent the 3-line sample from working?
>>
>>>
>>> Sorry for wasting bandwidth.
>>>
>>> Roger
>>>
>>> On 03/26/2014 11:55, Roger Cornelius wrote:
>>>> In dclerk on filePro 4.8.10D4 on SCO OSR6v, BREAK ON fails after SCREEN
>>>> command.  In the simplest case:
>>>>
>>>> ::break off:
>>>> ::screen 0:
>>>> ::break on:
>>>>
>>>> fails to restore break key functionality, i.e. break continues to be
>>>> ignored.  On the online filepro manual site, I checked all release notes
>>>> containing "break" and found nothing indicating a problem or fix with
>>>> the interaction of SCREEN and BREAK.  Nor do I see any mention of it in
>>>> the archive of this list.
>>>>
>>>> Was this a known issue with this version?  Has it been fixed?

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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