Peter wrote:
That's interesting information (pun sort of intended I guess) but I
have to believe you're capitalizing on a bug which may be fixed in
some upcoming release. I see great pains for some other site that may
find things working differently the next time they upgrade.

Can someone explain to me why an obscure reference to @(0,0) would be
defined as providing the functionality described? If it's not defined
(and I didn't crack the friendly manual on this one) then while you're
enjoying the benefits of the bug I recommend you contact IBM to get a
better solution and/or ensure that they fix (or perhaps _don't_ fix)
this situation for you and others.

Another side effect of using a work-around like this is that some
other developer at some site is going to see that code, say "this
doesn't belong here!", remove it, and then things will break. With
one-off changes like that it's very easy for the change to not be
documented, and for someone to forget this one line of code they
removed because they were so smart.

So thanks for the tip but I think someone needs to take this one a
little further.

T

Tony Gravagno wrote:
Assigning @(0,0) to a variable has disabled pagination in Universe (in
Information flavor) for as long as I've known. I originally learned
that technique in Prime Information, and carried it forward to Universe.
I also learned to put it in my code as follows:

DUMMY = @(0,0) ;* Disable pagination

And I learned that one the hard way, when someone "cleaned up" one of my
programs and removed what they saw as a superfluous line of code.

Regards.

--
Allen Egerton aegerton at pobox dot com

Hello Tony,
Very true. But a seassoned programmer you would know to add comments.
Here is my comment in the program. Can't get any clearer that that.

DUMMY = @(0,0) ;* To prevent "Press any key to continue..."

BTW Speaking of seassoned programers. This is my 20th year programming
in Pick. It's been a long ride and I don't see it comming to an end. I
have see the good, the bad and ugly in both programmers and companies.
I love this stuff and I'm getting paid for it. Life is good....

Pete

You're getting PAID for it?

Bill

mdsi2000 wrote:

That cought my eye too. Wow, you mean it's not all about passion?

Attention all Nebula R&D clients: I understand we should be getting
paid for all of this effort now, so from this point forward be
prepared to get invoices for services rendered.

(As some of my clients will tell you, that's not too far from the
truth sometimes. Doh!)

T


Bill Millikin wrote: