I currently am running a PROC menu program that calls a BASIC program
containing a PROCREAD command. This can get confusing... if I run the
initial PROC menu program then run the basic program, the PROCREAD is
successful and reads in the input buffer which is good. Although, if I
run the initial PROC menu program, call another program, go back to the
initial PROC menu, then call the BASIC program containing the PROCREAD
command, the PROCREAD fails.

In the jbase manual under PROCREAD, it says, "If the program was not
initiated by a jCL program then the PROCREAD will fail and any
statements associated with an ELSE clause will be executed".

QUESTION : How do I re-initialize a program? aka - How do I solve this
program?

Thanks,
Steve

Looks like a bug. First blush workaround: After you come back from that
first program, do a transfer to another proc and run the second program from
there.

I'd contact jbase to see if this is a real bug.

ED

"Steve" <sgalo (AT) cookvascular (DOT) com> wrote

Thanks, I just send an e-mail to the people at jbase.


Ed Sheehan wrote:

Sounds like the problem is that other program clearing the Proc Buffer so
that when the original progam runs, there's nothing to be read.

PROC, (speaking strictly form a "Pick" prespective; I've no way of knowing
how jBase implemented PROC) has four buffers it works with: primary and
secondary input and output.

PROCREAD reads from the Primary input buffer, stacked input comes from the
secondary output buffer (ston/stoff)

RI will clear the primary buffer, otherwise it should stay as long as you
need it.

However, after ever P proc command, the primary input buffer pointer SHOULD
be reset to 1.

Maybe you just need to re-assert the primary pointer by doing and Sn command
to explicitly point to the input for this program.

Mark Brown

"Steve" <sgalo (AT) cookvascular (DOT) com> wrote