What is the equivalent functionality of a Prime INFORMATION PHrase
record?

I used phrases all the time back in 1986-90. When I moved to D3, I
missed it. Does D3 have an equivalent type of dictionary record?


Thanks,
Danny

That would be a macro. Macros have an 'm' or an 'n' in the first
attribute and can actually exist in any file.

Try this to list all the macros in your MD:

list-macros md

(list-macros is itself a macro)

-Bruce H


ddspell-m3 wrote:

Bruce, I believe Danny is looking for a way to do this:

sort customer address.info cust.header lptr

with "address.info" defined somewhere to be:
name address city state zip

and "cust.header" is defined as:
heading "Customer listing, Page 'pncl'"

There are also default phrases which define the default dict defs to
be used for any given file when no output specs are used.

The way to do this is using an H in atb1 and the phrase in atb2.

Danny, look at the D3 reference manual for "phrases".

The D3 v7.5 documentation goes into more detail about this than its
predecessors. Keep yer eyes open for when the release goes
production.

HTH.
T



"ddspell-m3" <ddspell (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

Tony Gravagno wrote:
I would be willing to bet you're correct, Tony. If you look at the time
of my reply, you might see why I misconstrued his question!

-Bruce H

Thanks Bruce and Tony. Tony's right about what I'm after. I should've
looked in the documentation first. Macros in D3 are like paragraphs in
INFORMATION, right?

mvdbman (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:

Yup...and when I read your post the first time, that's what I thought I
read...Paragraph rather than Phrase. Sheesh...I must be getting old and
am not able to put in the hours like I used to. I replied on a day when
I had already put in about 13 hours after only 4 hours of sleep the
night before.

In any case, my bad and thanks Tony, for catching my error.

-Bruce H

ddspell-m3 wrote: